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 explore a multimedia story about refugee families to identify causes and possible responses to the refugee crisis and connect with those affected by it.
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In this short lesson, students consider the role of the media and their own relationship with journalism by exploring a story on press freedom in Morocco.
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Students analyze how photojournalist applies different photography techniques to communicate his reporting on a variety of global issues in order to plan and execute their own photo stories.
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Students will summarize text about undocumented mothers and the ankle monitors. Students will then create an argument using details from the text.
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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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Child Soldiers: Surviving Boko Haram
This lesson introduces students to the individual experiences of child soldiers as well as larger issues like the impact of war on children through reporting on Boko Haram.
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Planning Like a Journalist
In this lesson, students learn about the experience of international reporting from Iona Craig’s work in Yemen and her reflections on the reporting process.
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This group of lessons explores the interplay between religion and power. Students evaluate the degree to which religious forces impact the strength of a country's democratic institutions.
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Sectarian Tensions and Their Impacts
Students analyze why religions have internal conflicts and discuss whether these conflicts are truly religious in nature.
