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- 5th
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Students get acquainted with other towns and countries around the world by using the local newspaper. History is being made everyday, but many students do not read the paper to find out what things did happen. Full Review »
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- 7th - 9th
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Students identify the 5 themes of geography as being location, place, human-environmental interaction, movement and region. They explain a current event from the perspective of each theme and their interrelationship.. Full Review »
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- 4th - 12th
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Students read current event magazines and newspapers, and highlight questions and answers that are to be used for a class Jeopardy Game. They participate in class Jeopardy Game. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students monitor current events using on-line and traditional resources. They explore issues such as what trends they see developing in specific news issues over time and how different news stories might be interrelated. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students read newspaper articles, summarize them, find the stories' locations on a map and compute the distance from their city. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students read an online article about blogging and its culture especially in the workplace. They create their own blogs based on current events. Full Review »
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- 6th - 10th
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Students read a newspaper thoroughly, choose one current event and write a short paragraph describing the event. The next day in class they play a scavenger hunt game looking for information about specfic stories in the newspaper. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students discuss recent currents events as a class. Using one of the events, they write a poem about how they feel about the event in question. They choose specific symbols that relate to event and write a poem about it as well. They share and discuss each poem with the class. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students investigate the current events and how the media reports them. They interpret information and determine the likelihood of its accuracy. Sections strengthen geography skills while investigating portions of the world experiencing the most hardship. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students are introduced to the 5 W's in relation to current events. Using a newspaper, they read and find important world events that have occured other than sporting events. They discover the importance of keeping up on current events and answer the 5 W questions for the article they chose. Full Review »
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