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- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students design a sample newspaper with the goal of having their design (or portions of their design) chosen for use during the following year. The focus of this project is layout and design and to improve the school publication. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students practice the elements necessary to create a modular design layout. They practice the skills necessary to evaluate effective layout and design. They, as part of a team, create a five-column grid for an 11" x 17" tabloid. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students examine the impact of photography on bringing readership to a magazine. They read and discuss an article, and create a magazine cover and inside spread designed to compete with an existing publication. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students utilize computer editing software, their Titanic articles, interviews, and images from the time to create a front-page for their newspaper, which covers the disaster. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th
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Students finish presenting their one minute novel evaluations while choosing one of the novels to read independentally. They view a variety of graphic organizers to strategically plan out their website content. In addition, they review the Dream weaver program for consideration. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th
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This unit is an introduction to the U.S. Constitution. First, students read the Articles of Confederation. They pretend to be a visitor to the convention and write a journal describing the compromises that "save the day." Next, they research how the concepts of representative democracy work within the framework of our government as outlined in the Constitution. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students take an educational game/quiz on using plain English. Students examine the three C's of reporting--clear, concise and correct. Students study the importance of using plain English in journalism. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students create an issue of a magazine. They work collaboratively to write articles for the magazine, design a cover and develop advertisements. Students complete their page layout, and create the magazine using information form each person in their group. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students are given the guidelines for their log books. The log book first starts with what is the purpose of a log book. Then students have the instructions on how to organize a log book. From there student are given step by step instructions on how to write journal entries, and also how their log books are evaluated. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Student design, edit, and layout a computer-generated school newspaper four times a year. They collect and write about school events and work in small groups to layout each issue using graphics and word processing. Full Review »
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