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 are invited to make their voices heard this election season by writing a letter to a decisionmaker that explains the global issue they want to see prioritized. Deadline: November 1, 2026.
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The Bodies We Forget
Students will read reporting on disabled pregnant women in Malawi and explore how hospitals can dehumanize or protect patients in order to create advocacy pieces that call for dignified care for all...
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Students compare human development data between Argentina, the United States, and Native American communities to plan for an advocacy campaign focused on women’s health.
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How Social Sentinel Crossed Student Privacy Rights
Students discover how AI influences their daily lives and how the use AI and biometric data by institutional systems could potentially violate their privacy.
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Fourth-grade students explore underreported stories that highlight achievements of Black and Latinx individuals, leveraging art, music and journalism to understand and celebrate diversity.
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Students examine the impact individuals, governments and corporations have on what might be our most precious natural resource: drinking water.
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Our Immigration Cuentos
Students will examine underreported stories related to immigration and relate the articles they read to themes of querencia. Working in groups, they present the story they investigated to the class...
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How To Tell Underreported Stories With Audio
In this lesson, students will analyze how journalists tell underreported stories using audio and apply tips from Pulitzer Center-supported journalists for telling audio stories themselves.
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Recipes and Roadmaps for Healing
Students engage with journalism, short films, local interviews, and self reflection to expand their definitions of advocacy, explore the causes and impacts of trauma, and ultimately compose a recipe...
