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Lesson Plans
Museum of Current Crises
This lesson plan outlines a project that allows students the opportunity to connect with a contemporary crisis somewhere in the world.
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This Common Core-aligned lesson helps students explore the Haitian experience through poetry, photography, and music.
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Objective: Examine current events in Cuba, now that the US and Cuba have restored diplomatic ties. Essential Question: Is Cuba in the midst of positive change, negative change, or stagnation?
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Students analyze cholera mapping, identify community health concerns, and create plans for their own publicity campaigns informing community members of current community health concerns.
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Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: Cuba in Flux
Cuban communism is in flux. Yet reminders of the regime remain.
August 18, 2015 -
Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Gaiutra Bahadur
Electoral contests and racial violence have been linked from Guyana's very beginning as an...
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Project
Cuba in Flux
Cuban communism is in flux. Citizens own businesses and property; some are even allowed to protest...
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Pulitzer Center Update
'The Abominable Crime' Educates Communities Around the World
Award-winning documentary becomes community engagement tool on LGBTI issues via screenings from New...
August 13, 2015
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/08-18-15/unnamed.jpg.webp?h=0e753701&itok=QyK5RNEQ "Daniel Aleman, 20, and his girlfriend, Kaisa Garcia, 21, before a Buena Fe concert at Mella theater in Havana. Their moments of privacy are rare - like many people their age, they will live with their parents for many years before being able to afford their own place to live. "If you can just forget about the economy, the safety here is nice," Ms. Garcia, a dancer, said. "I just try to create a bubble in my mind away from anything that doesn't work in the country, and I am happy." Image by Yana Paskova. Cuba, 2015.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/08-13-15/20150812-lens-yana-slide-de57-superjumbo.jpg.webp?h=afaa4389&itok=-tgS3OQ2 "Daniel Aleman, 20, and his girlfriend, Kaisa Garcia, 21, before a Buena Fe concert at Mella theater in Havana. Their moments of privacy are rare - like many people their age, they will live with their parents for many years before being able to afford their own place to live. "If you can just forget about the economy, the safety here is nice," Ms. Garcia, a dancer, said. "I just try to create a bubble in my mind away from anything that doesn't work in the country, and I am happy." Image by Yana Paskova. Cuba, 2015.")
