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Unit Plan
University of Kansas

Newspaper in the Classroom

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Newspapers aren't only for reading—they're for learning skills, too! A journalism unit provides three lessons each for primary, intermediate, and secondary grades. Lessons include objectives, materials, vocabulary, and procedure, and...
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Lesson Plan
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Don't Lose Your Way in the News

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore language arts by participating in a newspaper analysis activity. In this journalism lesson, students identify how newspapers present stories, who is writing them and how they can obtain information from them. Students...
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Lesson Plan
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Using Details from Text to Identify Author's Purpose

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Explore writing techniques by analyzing newspapers and magazines with middle schoolers. They will collaborate in small groups to read local news stories and identify the main ideas and author's intent. They also utilize an information...
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Creating a Digital Newspaper

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Pupils create a digital newspaper. In this digital newspaper instructional activity, students review the sections of a newspaper and brainstorm ideas for their paper. Pupils complete a schools news report, student interview, opinion...
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Lesson Plan
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Natural Resources

For Teachers K - 12th
Students explore Iowa geography and topographic maps. In this geography and topographic maps lesson, student investigate maps, newspapers, Iowa flora and fauna. Students gain an understanding of how different landforms can be identified...
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Lesson Plan
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Numbers in the News

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students examine numbers used in the real world by reading newspapers.  In this number identification lesson, students explore popular newspapers and attempt to find numbers in prices, temperatures, dates, sports scores, etc.  Students...
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How Do You Choose Snacks and Other Foods?

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students discuss peer pressure pertaining to healthy eating decisions.  In this personal health lesson, students identify reasons why they make poor eating decisions and how to ignore food temptations.  Students complete the "Rate That...
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Worksheet
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Prepositions

For Students K - 3rd
Elementary schoolers view and study ten pictures of the location of a ball adjacent to a box. They decide where the ball is and match it to its appropriate preposition on the right. A good language arts lesson!
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Lesson Plan
School City of Hobart

Too Many Types Of Titles

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Direct instruction on punctuation rules for titles is followed by collaborative practice in class. Two worksheets with aesthetically engaging graphic design provide practice. For 12 examples, small groups either underline, italicize, or...
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Lesson Plan
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The Delicate Balance - Iowa's Natural Resources

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Discover the natural resources in Iowa by studying it's history. In this environmental lesson, your students will observe a topographical map of Iowa and identify where its most valuable resources are. They complete an Iowa name...
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Lesson Plan
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Jack-O-Latern Lesson

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Have a Happy Halloween and build strong oral language skills. Special needs Pupils functioning at a moderate level can practice sequencing, writing lists, and using oral language by explaining how they carve a pumpkin. 
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Worksheet
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Prepositions

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this preposition matching instructional activity, students are given 10 pictures in the left column. Students must match the prepositions that are shown in the right column.
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Worksheet
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Eating Out

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this eating out worksheet, students practice matching ten food items on the right to their appropriate pictures on the left.
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Worksheet
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Adjectives

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this adjectives practice worksheet, students choose describing words with opposite meanings. Students complete twelve sentences.
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Organizer
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Varied Verb Tense: Sentence Maze

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this recognizing verb tenses in sentences activity, students use the correct tense verbs to connect the words in sentences and find their way from the beginning of the maze to the end. Students connect nine sentences.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Varied Verb Tense Sentence Maze

For Students 3rd - 6th
For this varied verb tenses practice worksheet, students connect the words in each sentence to find their way through the maze.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Art of Jewelry

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students discover Native American culture through jewelry.  In this Native American culture lesson, students investigate several different Native American tribes and complete a word search activity.  Students create their own jewelry...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Inventions Change the World: The Enigma Machine

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore WWII by analyzing technological advances. In this invention lesson, 3rd graders discuss the use of the Enigma machine which decoded private German messages that communicated with U-boats. Students utilize a timeline...
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Interactive
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Some or Any?

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this online/interactive grammar worksheet, students read descriptions about using the terms some or any and apply their knowledge to complete sentences with either some or any answers. Students answer 50 questions.
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Interactive
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Active or Passive

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this interactive grammar worksheet, students read the 22 sentences and identify the passive or active voice from the drop down menu.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Breaking News: Bin Laden Photo To Be Released

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore current events by completing worksheet activities in class. In this Osama Bin Laden instructional activity, students read the news article of Bin Laden's death and subsequent photo while discussing the event with...
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Worksheet
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I Must/ I Must Not

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this ESL word and picture comprehension learning exercise, learners examine seven pictures and complete a multiple choice question for each. They answer the question that contains the words "must not" or "must."
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Worksheet
Curated OER

ESL: Beginning Vocabulary Matching

For Teachers 2nd - 9th
Beginning English Learners match 10 line-drawn pictures of basic nouns with their names, such as kite, airplane, goat, and igloo. Indefinite articles are included, so this exercise also provides reinforcement for the a/an rule.
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Worksheet
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Clothing Answers

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this word use learning exercise, students examine 9 pictures and fill in the word "this" or "these" to best complete a question. Students then answer the question in a complete sentence.

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