Connecting With Climate and Environment Stories for Earth Day
Posted by Pulitzer Center on April 22, 2025
Earth Day highlights the necessary work to protect our planet and those doing the work. The Pulitzer Center is featuring a variety of resources to support your students in connecting with global climate and environment stories.
Green Justice: Exploring How Rhetoric and Art Are Used to Inform and Empower Communities
In this lesson plan created by Deidra Wright, a 2023-24 Teacher Fellow and high school English Language Arts educator in Atlanta, GA, students research the power of persuasive writing in environmental activism. After engaging with a range of resources related to environmental justice, students will create their own projects to inform their communities about an environmental issue they are passionate about.
The Intersections of Racial and Climate Justice
Created by the Education for Liberation team as part of the 2023 cohort of The 1619 Project Education Network, this unit invites students to explore the historical context to the current climate crisis, whose origins trace back to industrialization and the enslavement of African people.
Changing Tide: Climate Change and New England Fisheries
This project, created by Barbara Moran and Duy Linh Tu as part of the Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach U.S. initiative, documents the unprecedented changes happening to fisheries in the Northeastern United States due to climate change, investigating both the causes and the consequences.
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