High School
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A lesson plan to guide analysis of a video introduction to Nikole Hannah-Jones and The 1619 Project.
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Students learn about voter suppression and disenfranchisement in U.S. elections, and how people are mobilizing to combat it.
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In this lesson, students will watch, analyze, and conduct further research based on a Pulitzer Center webinar where infectious disease journalist Jon Cohen speaks on the path to a COVID-19 vaccine.
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In this lesson, students will analyze data showing that Black and brown people are over-represented in COVID-19 mortality statistics, investigate structural causes, and search for solutions.
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Lesson Plans
Analyzing the Exit of Private Prisons: Now What?
Students analyze text-based reporting and engage with what happens when communities decide to stop relying on private companies to run correctional institutions
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Lesson Plans
Growing Up Through the Cracks: Exploring Solutions to Child Poverty in Scotland and the United States
Students analyze solutions to end child poverty in Glasgow, Scotland and Allegheny County in the Southwest of Pennsylvania.
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A lesson plan for close reading and guided discussion of Bryan Stevenson's essay "Mass Incarceration," which traces the legacy of slavery in the contemporary criminal legal system.
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Students analyze reporting recounting a North Korean woman and her children's journey to a new life in South Korea, understand the factors that pushed her to flee, and encounter challenges she faced.
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Students explore the effects of climate change on the identities, homes, and livelihoods of communities living in the Great Lakes region.
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Students explore reporting about four Black Americans' decisions to 'repatriate' to Ghana, analyze their motivations, and make connections between Black History figures and current events.
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Lesson Plans
The Weekly: Analyzing the Impacts of Chronic Disease
Students learn about sickle cell disease and the first teen to undergo an experimental new treatment, while also exploring issues of chronic illness and access to medical care more broadly.
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Students explore reporting on civil asset forfeiture (the seizure of property police believe is connected to a crime), evaluate perspectives on "policing for profit," and make local connections.