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Lesson Plans
Museum of Current Crises
This lesson plan outlines a project that allows students the opportunity to connect with a contemporary crisis somewhere in the world.
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Objective: to allow students to explore the interplay between China’s politics, environmentalism and Tibetan Buddhism. Lesson length: 50 minutes.
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Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: The Pope and Xi, Religion and Environment
Our latest e-book offers surprising insights on a growing global debate about the environment.
September 21, 2015 -
Students will explore the potential impact of Pope Francis's call for ecological preservation and contrast trends in China that are prompting Buddhists there to be better environmental stewards.
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Lesson Plans
Improving Students’ Blogging Skills
After a series of chats with Pulitzer Center journalists, students reflect on the experience in a creative yet relevant form of writing by producing a blog post.
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Lesson Plans
Soil Pollution in China
Essential questions: What is the cost of industrialization and who pays it? How do we determine whether food is safe? How do you balance food security (production) and food safety?
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Lesson Plans
Ocean Health and Overfishing
Standards-aligned lessons to support student learning around overfishing and ocean health.
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Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: A Changing Status Quo
China and Taiwan still miles apart on reunification.
September 8, 2015 -
Pulitzer Center Update
The Journalist-Turned-Photographer Shining a Light on Beijing's Underground Workers
Sim Chi Yin, once a print journalist, now photographs her stories: most recently, the plight of...
August 19, 2015 -
Lesson Plans
Should the Beijing City Government Shut Down the Underground Residences of the Rat Tribe?
Students will be able to identify the push and pull factors of Chinese migrant workers, analyze their living conditions in Beijing.