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In this land rights and multimedia lesson plan for English teachers, history teachers, humanities teachers, media teachers and science teachers, students explore Fatal Extraction, a multi-media...
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Telling Science Stories: Data Visualization
This lesson shows students how journalists use data visualization to effectively communicate scientific issues—and directs students to create their own projects using the mapping platform CartoDB .
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Exploring Other Countries
In this lesson, students use the Pulitzer Center website to research a specific country before giving an oral presentation.
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This plan includes lessons connected to the work of journalists that presented at the University of Chicago Summer Teacher Institute in June 2017.
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The World's Most Toxic Town
Use reporting on Zambia’s lead mines by Damian Carrington and Larry C. Price to explore the causes, effects and responses to toxic lead poisoning.
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How to Write a Commentary
In this lesson, students listen to a journalist discuss their reporting and then write a commentary. Students were expected to ask questions, take plenty of notes, and come up with a thesis statement.
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What Happens to Communities When Industries Leave?
In this lesson, students create a timeline using multimedia reporting on the leather and textile industries in the U.S.. Students then design their own narrative timelines to explain a current event.
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This lesson for English, science, history, and journalism teachers asks students to assess how journalists integrate diverse media to analyze the impacts of leather production in Bangladesh.
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Conviction Driven 'Miracles'
After reading Erik Vance's The Science Behind Miracles , students discuss what it means to have a “limitless” world and whether or not science has anything to do with achieving the impossible.
