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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Journalism, Justice, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Project Based Learning
Students identify underreported news stories that challenge the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and then develop solutions to a violation of the declaration in their own community.
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Creating Comics: Using Storyboards and Comics to Share Personal Migration Stories in the ESL Classroom
Students analyze underreported news stories of migration, evaluate connections to the reporting, and write a story that they will graphically illustrate as a comic style/storyboard.
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Equity and COVID-19
Students analyze inequities in COVID-19 vaccine distribution, develop digital literacy skills to make informed decisions about the vaccine, and then engage in civic action work to promote equity in...
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Empowering students to shape pandemic budgets
Students investigate the impact of COVID-19 on marginalized communities in Chicago, identifying issues that matter to them, to participate in discussions about CPS budget allocations as an advocate...
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'Race for the Vaccine' Curricular Resource
Students analyze a documentary film that depicts the vaccine development process, and captures how five teams of scientists raced against time to produce the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Students explore clips from the PBS Series Extra Life to analyze the history and legacy of life-saving medical discoveries that have doubled human life expectancy in the last 100 years.
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"The Living Century" from The New York Times Magazine: Underreported stories of medical progress
Students examine factors, many of which have been underreported, that have led to the doubling of human life expectancy over the past century.
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Reach out to the Pulitzer Center education team to connect your students with an award-winning journalist who can demystify a wide range of public health issues.
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Teaching Guide: If God Is a Virus (Poems)
Reading guides and activities for a book of documentary poetry that interrogates the worlds of journalism, medicine, international aid, their ethics, and their intersections.
![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/styles/510x315/public/pooyan_presents.jpg.webp?h=13c444e7&itok=yKtOXKTR "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.")
