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

The 1619 Project, inaugurated with a special issue of The New York Times Magazine, markes the year when the first enslaved Africans arrived on Virginia soil. Here you find reading guides, activities, and other resources for the classroom (USA: Pulitzer Center 2019).

In this lesson, students will apply media literacy skills to global news stories, and then will take action to encourage the spread of reliable information and urgent under-reported stories (USA: Pulitzer Center 2020).

Students will be able to describe what it means for a story to be under-reported. The apply the following five components of media literacy to Pulitzer Center reporting: Access, Analyze, Evaluate, Create, and Act (USA 2021).

Harper Lee is best known for writing the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Go Set a Watchman,' which portrays the later years of the Finch family. Who was Harper Lee? Early Life Education

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).

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).