Browse and adapt hundreds of standards-aligned lesson plans for K–12 classrooms. Lessons encourage students to make local connections to global news stories, while strengthening skills such as critical thinking, media literacy, and communication. Click here to send feedback to our team.
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Students will analyze reporting on climate change and its varying impacts on people and communities. Using diverse mediums of reporting, students will draw personal connections from global reporting.
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Lesson Plans
Viewing Guide for Entangled
Students evaluate how efforts to save the North Atlantic right whales are affecting various communities and organizations in a feature-length documentary.
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In this lesson, students will hear from a journalist who uses writing skills to describe underreported places, and practice the same skills in original writing.
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Lesson Plans
How to Tell Under-Reported Stories with Photography
In this lesson, students will analyze how photojournalists tell under-reported stories using photography and apply tips for doing so themselves from Pulitzer Center-supported journalists.
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In this lesson, students read and analyze reporting that investigates the relationship between climate change and migration using both data journalism and wrenching storytelling.
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Lesson Plans
Finding & analyzing underreported news stories: Critical thinking, text analysis and writing
Students explore news articles and instructional videos to evaluate how they can find and analyze under-reported stories in the news, and in their own communities
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As students across the world learn remotely, Pulitzer Center is committed to supporting educators with engaging resources that are online and easily printable.
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Students explore the effects of climate change on the identities, homes, and livelihoods of communities living in the Great Lakes region.
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Students explore reporting on Indigenous youth activism in the Amazon, analyze the causes of plastic pollution, and consider how they can make a difference in reducing waste in their own communities.
