Interactive Learning Opportunities for "America's Medical Supply Crisis"
"America's Medical Supply Crisis" investigates how the coronavirus has exposed deadly weaknesses in global medical supply chains. The documentary is the result of seven months of collaborative reporting by the PBS series FRONTLINE, The Associated Press, and the Global Reporting Centre. The Pulitzer Center supported education resources related to the investigation.
These curricular resources offer a viewing guide and lesson plan for exploring the documentary in class, the opportunity to bring public health journalists into your classroom, and more. Want to be the first to know about new resources and opportunities for engaging with "America's Medical Supply Crisis" and the journalists behind it? Sign up for our weekly education newsletter!
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Lesson Plans
Evaluating 'America's Medical Supply Crisis'
This viewing guide for the documentary "America’s Medical Supply Crisis” leads students in discussion, reflection, and projects that increase public awareness about the PPE shortage in the U.S.
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Reach out to the Pulitzer Center education team to connect your students with an award-winning journalist who can demystify reporting on COVID-19 and public health crises around the world.
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Explore how Pulitzer Center can support your classroom in teaching "America's Medical Supply Crisis" and beyond!
![Pooyan Tabatabei presents "Walking on a Blade," a photojournalism project documenting the impacts of COVID-19 on Iran's marginalized communities. Image courtesy of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago. United States/Canada, 2020.](/sites/default/files/pooyan_presents.jpg "Pooyan Tabatabei presents "Walking on a Blade," a photojournalism project documenting the impacts of COVID-19 on Iran's marginalized communities. Image courtesy of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago. United States/Canada, 2020.")
![Media file: screen_shot_2019-09-24_at_5.40.12_pm.png](/sites/default/files/screen_shot_2019-09-24_at_5.40.12_pm.png "Ninth-graders at Whitney Young Magnet High School in Chicago present a completed timeline that compares events in the Middle East to highly publicized news stories in the U.S. over the course of the nearly two decades explored in Scott Anderson's "Fractured Lands." Students in World Studies classes at Whitney Young spent eight weeks processing Anderson's story through discussion and close-reading. Image by Anne-Michele Boyle. Chicago, 2016.")