The Center provides lesson plans, focused on current events and world issues in the news today (2018-21).

Using The Pulitzer Center Issues, students research a global issue and interpret this problem through a tempera painting inspired by Pablo Picasso's Guernica (USA 2020).

Students analyze reporting on this conflict over the last years to gain context for the current crisis (USA: Pulitzer 2022)

These lesson ideas challenge students to create and evaluate visual representations of climate change to more effectively interpret and share some of the world’s most critical information (USA: Pulitzer Center 2018).

What are the environmental and human costs underlying our current food consumption habits? This essential question is at the crux of this lesson plan (USA 2019).

In this unit, students analyze sources from the period of the Black Death in Medieval Europe and compare them to coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic (USA: Pulitzer 2021).

Students will be able to evaluate reporting on the battle for land in the Brazilian Amazon in order to craft arguments that use evidence to describe how they think land in the Amazon should be used (USA: Pulitzer Center 2018).

The unit focuses on the fragility of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It looks at the role of the media and highlights the importance of underreported news stories (USA: Pulitzer 2021).

This lesson plan is designed to introduce Hannah-Jones’ essay, and The 1619 Project of the New York Times, through discussion questions and guided reading (Pulitzer Center 2020).

These lesson plans introduce journalists who risk their personal safety to tell the stories that need to be told (Pulitzer 2019).