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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Lesson Plan: Vanishing Groundwater
This lesson plan examines the effects of rapidly depleting groundwater reserves around the world using photos, video, interactive maps, startling statistics and rich interviews.
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In this global affairs lesson plan, students will explore the article Humanitarian Raid and debate the role that large corporations should play in helping to end poverty.
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The following humanitarian aid lesson plan asks students to consider the role that the World Bank should be playing in international aid and analyze the author’s purpose for writing the piece.
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News Bite 5: Ebola's Legacy
In this lesson, students will learn about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the people who worked to slow the epidemic, and the aftermath the disease has wrought upon the region.
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News Bite 3: Too Young to Die
In this lesson, we'll take a look at a short film trailer and a photograph by Carlos Javier Ortiz around the issue of gun violence in Chicago, exploring its often-untold consequences.
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Air Pollution: A Global Problem
In this lesson, using Pulitzer Center journalism resources, we'll examine air pollution around the world.
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School Lunch Around the World
In this lesson, students will explore controversy about India's midday meal program and consider how school lunches around the world compare to their own experiences.
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This Common Core-aligned lesson helps students explore the Haitian experience through poetry, photography, and music.
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The Journey North: Exploring reasons behind migration to the U.S. from Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala
In this lesson we will look at three reporting projects: violence in Honduras; violence in Guatemala; and the abduction of students in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico.
