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 learn to identify perspectives and their implications by reading The Tempest, alongside other literary and journalistic texts, and analyzing themes of colonialism, xenophobia, and migration.
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Students examine news stories about youth displacement, and how youth respond with resilience and improve society. Students then script and film videos to capture personal connections to the stories.
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Lesson Plans
Which Way Home? Exploring the Relationship Between Migration and Identity Through Personal Narrative
Students explore definitions of home, how migration and media representation influence identity, and dispel stereotypes about migrants through close reading, analysis, and discussion.
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This lesson examines reporting from journalist Zahra Ahmad and encourages students to investigate their cultural traditions after considering Ahmad's reporting on her experiences as an Iraqi-American.
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Students reflect on stories they have seen about migration, and then analyze text and photography from eight short articles about women from different parts of the world who were forced to migrate.
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Students will engage with infographics to analyze and communicate global migration trends, and specifically visualize the experience of women who are migrating.
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Reach out to the Pulitzer Center education team to connect your students with an award-winning photojournalist.
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This unit focuses on the power of both underreported news stories and poetry to tell a story and get to the emotional core of a justice issue.
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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.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/mm9019_ngs61831s-19_191210_07580.jpg.webp?h=9dd951d5&itok=dZzAQ6Fr "A young camel tugs at Cadar Maxamed's hijab in Xinjiinle, in northern Somaliland. The camel was named Baruud—"tough"—because its mother survived years of drought, unlike most of Cadar's animals. Camels and other livestock are the basis of pastoralists' wealth in the region. Image by Nichole Sobecki/National Geographic.")
