Labor
A person’s labor is deeply intertwined with their economic status, quality of life, and access to basic resources like food and clothing. Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Labor” feature reporting that covers the rights of workers, efforts to organize labor unions and worker advocacy groups, modern slavery, and other forms of worker exploitation. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on labor.
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Students will explore the potential impact of Pope Francis's call for ecological preservation and contrast trends in China that are prompting Buddhists there to be better environmental stewards.
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Lesson Plans
Clean Water: A Global Challenge
In this lesson, students explore the causes and consequences of the fragile water and sanitation infrastructure in Nepal.
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In eastern Nepal, a Hepatitis E epidemic infected over 5,000 people, killing over a dozen. But in...
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Lesson Plans
Improving Students’ Blogging Skills
After a series of chats with Pulitzer Center journalists, students reflect on the experience in a creative yet relevant form of writing by producing a blog post.
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This global affairs lesson plan asks students to watch a short video and read a newspaper article to learn about the Rana Plaza factory collapse, and then compare it to historical industrial trends.
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Lesson Plans
Weighing the Pros and Cons of Working Abroad
Students will read articles and watch videos as preparation to an empathy-building exercise that will help them understand why people choose to leave their families to seek out employment overseas.
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Lesson Plans
Ocean Health and Overfishing
Standards-aligned lessons to support student learning around overfishing and ocean health.
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Lesson Plans
Beyond 7 Billion
Students will analyze the choices for girls in Bangladesh and discuss whether working in the garment industry really does allow women to find more freedom.
