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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Objective: To introduce journalism students to the concept of convergence. Essential Question: Why does convergence journalism make a story more powerful?
This lesson will help students apply knowledge of language to understand how it functions in different cultures and contexts.
This lesson will give students a close-up view of a successful program dedicated to an aspect of global public health abroad.
Students will learn about the importance of water safety and collect class data on swimming involvement.
Various standards-aligned lessons to support student learning around the importance of language diversity.
Essential questions: What is the cost of industrialization and who pays it? How do we determine whether food is safe? How do you balance food security (production) and food safety?
Standards-aligned lessons to support student learning around overfishing and ocean health.