Youth
There are now more people under the age of 25 in the world than ever before, presenting both opportunities for social progress and considerable challenges. Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Youth” feature reporting on young people, the issues they face and the potential for change they represent. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on youth.
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Lesson Plans
Interview Skills for English Language Learners
This lesson helps students decode and connect with images from a reporting project about migration. The students then interview each other, and go on to interview community members about immigration.
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This lesson for English, science, history, and journalism teachers asks students to assess how journalists integrate diverse media to analyze the impacts of leather production in Bangladesh.
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![](data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg'%20viewBox%3D'0%200%20510%20315'%2F%3E "Holmes Middle School Global Awareness teacher Faraz Chaudry introduces "Fractured Lands" to students with exercises assessing students' background knowledge of the region. He and Information Literacy Specialist Tracy Crowley went on to design and facilitate an eight-week unit connected to the story. Image by Tracy Crowley. United States, 2016.")
Pulitzer Center Update
Eighth Graders Investigate Hope, Courage and Resilience in "Fractured Lands"
Teacher Faraz Chaudry describes how he used "Fractured Lands" to examine the unraveling of the...
February 20, 2017 -
Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Amy Maxmen in South Africa
In July 2016, Amy Maxmen traveled to Kwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa, where girls under age 20 are...
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Pulitzer Center Update
Hardy Middle Schoolers Report D.C., Slowly
Eighth-graders at Hardy Middle School learn the ins and outs of slow journalism.
January 27, 2017 -
Lesson Plans
Middle East Strategy Task Force Event Preparation
This lesson is to prepare students for an event featuring Secretary Madeleine Albright and Steven Hadley around the Atlantic Council's Middle East Strategy Task Force report.
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Students learn about asylum seekers and the boundaries between refugees and migrants. They explore how current refugee and migration policies impact women and children.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/01-16-17/img_5110.jpg.webp?h=a5eb5da0&itok=vxjdvGcG "Holmes Middle School Global Awareness teacher Faraz Chaudry introduces "Fractured Lands" to students with exercises assessing students' background knowledge of the region. He and Information Literacy Specialist Tracy Crowley went on to design and facilitate an eight-week unit connected to the story. Image by Tracy Crowley. United States, 2016.")
![Hardy Middle School students visiting the Pulitzer Center pose with their photography from the "Walk Like a Journalist" workshop. Image by Perrine Punwani. Washington, D.C., 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/01-27-17/img_0594.jpg.webp?h=30b17cf4&itok=u8neY-99 "Hardy Middle School students visiting the Pulitzer Center pose with their photography from the "Walk Like a Journalist" workshop. Image by Perrine Punwani. Washington, D.C., 2017.")
![On the way to Tiwale Teen Club in Lilongwe—a "shining star."](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/10-26-16/martin_preuss_centre_lilongwe.jpg.webp?h=e34c877d&itok=U2xu2UBj "On the way to Tiwale Teen Club in Lilongwe—a "shining star." Image by Jen Stephens. Malawi, 2016.")
