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

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).

Students determine why Turkey was downgraded by Freedom House to “not free”, they evaluate what it means for a country to be “free”, and they assess what freedoms they have in their community (Pulitzer Center 2019).

This project asks students to select a news article and research one of its subjects to learn about their individual story and global significance, then present that information to others (USA: Pulitzer Center 2019).

A drag and drop game where players are tasked with assembling an organ system and making their way through the nervous, skeletal, excretory, and reproductive systems (USA 2013)

The year is 432 BCE. As dawn breaks over Athens, Pheidias is late for work. He is the chief builder for the Parthenon— Athens’ newest and largest temple— and when he arrives onsite, city officials accuse him of embezzling gold from the temple’s sacred central statue. He has until sundown to prove his innocence or face the courts (TED-Ed 2021).

Students will be able to: Analyze text and images in order to synthesize information and reflect on the question: What is home? Compare and contrast their ideas of home with the “home” portrayed in the media. Evaluate and revise their ideas and connections to this topic by discussing the details in the text and images (Pulitzer Center 2018).