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Reporting on North Korea
Students explore two recent reporting projects on North Korea, comparing and contrasting the journalists' purpose, content, and style.
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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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Using Video to Craft a Global Health Spending Debate
The following global health lesson plan for English teachers, history teachers, humanities teachers and science teachers introduces students to journalist Rob Tinworth's The Life Equation project. It...
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Terrorism and Tourism in the Maldives
In this lesson, students will analyze an article about terrorism in the Maldives while practicing their writing and presentation skills.
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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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War and Famine
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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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This plan includes lessons connected to the work of journalists that presented at the University of Chicago Summer Teacher Institute in June 2017.
