Journalism
-
Lesson Plans
Bringing Stories Home: Exploring Local Journalism
This resource is designed to help students access and engage with quality journalism local to their region and/or state, and to extend their learning through research, writing, and art activities.
-
Lesson Plans
How To Tell Underreported Stories With Audio
In this lesson, students will analyze how journalists tell underreported stories using audio and apply tips from Pulitzer Center-supported journalists for telling audio stories themselves.
-
Explore media literacy activities designed to help students in out-of-school time programs critically analyze and navigate the news.
-
Lesson Plans
Can I Ask You Something?
Students engage key questions that drive exploration of global issues and underreported local stories, resulting in podcasts that capture the plurality of experiences and voices in their community.
-
Lesson Plans
Picture This!
Students apply close reading and photo analysis skills to analyze underreported global news stories. They then compose photojournalism projects capturing underrepresented stories in their communities.
-
Students engage with the question, “How does my community relate to the larger global community in the problems that they face?”
-
Lesson Plans
Community in the Face of Climate Change
Students analyze how communities can leverage local government and community advocacy to address environmental events driven by climate change.
-
Lesson Plans
Society’s Mirror: Stories to Change the World
Students produce podcasts that cover local underreported stories after analyzing historical and contemporary issues central to Native American history and culture in the U.S.
-
Students get a glimpse into the lives LGBTQ+ people lead, the challenges they face, and the communities they form by exploring photo stories from around the world and reflecting on their own community...
-
Students reflect on their own sense of place or belonging as they explore reporting on the lasting impact of the Morrill Act of 1862 on Native communities in the U.S.
-
Lesson Plans
Beyond the Headlines: Humanitarian Crisis in Haiti
Students learn about the current humanitarian crisis in Haiti and explore its connection to foreign exploitation through the legacy of French colonial rule, debts, and military interventions.
-
Lesson Plans
Beyond the Headlines: Justice for Mahsa (Zhina) Amini and Global Protests Against State Violence
Students learn about the protests in Iran sparked by the death of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini in police custody and connect the protests to global calls for justice in response to state violence.