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Harriet Tubman In The News

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the history of Harriet Tubman. They use newspaper articles from history and modern times in order to gather information. They use a graphic organizer in order to categorize information. They distinguish the readings...
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Brazilian Guilty of Murdering American Nun

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students read, analyze and critique a newspaper article about a nun's murder in Brazil. They assess key vocabulary terms found within the article, answer a variety of comprehension questions and study how to write a letter to a newspaper.
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What Do They Do? A Current Events Action

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research and identify philanthropic organizations involved in current events. In this current events lesson, students search newspaper articles for philanthropic organizations, such as the Red Cross, and how they are related to...
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The Science of Weather: How Doppler Radar reads weather

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars read about how radar detects changes in the weather. In this lesson plan on weather reporting, students read a diagram that shows how radar reads weather. This lesson plan includes discussion questions and an individual...
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Raising the Bar on How Business Gets Done

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the concept of energy bar sales. In this energy bar sales lesson, students read an article about the sales of energy bars. High schoolers discuss what is meant by red roads and white roads in the article. Students...
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Story Assignments

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students choose their beats and decide what areas of school and community news they cover.
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Online Collaborative Social Studies Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create newspapers and post them online for others to see.
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I've Got News For You!

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore their hometown newspaper for ideas. They create their own classroom newspaper.
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The New Kids on the Blog

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider the role of a critic by creating top ten lists for arts-related topics and participate in a simulated blog activity. They write newpaper articles to accompany their top ten lists and submit them for publication.
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EARLY COLORADO ADVERTISING

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students investigate the history of advertising in Colorado.They analyze newspapers and advertisements putting them into different categories. Students question the content to develop higher order thinking skills.
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Natural Selection and the Peppered Moth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars study natural selection and its process in the peppered moth. In this evolution lesson, students read about the concept of natural selection as suggested by Charles Darwin. Young scholars then complete a natural selection...
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The Bigger they Are . . .

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students do a variety of data analyses of real-life basketball statistics from the NBA. They chart and graph rebounding, scoring, shot blocking and steals data which are gathered from the newspaper sports section.
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Joan of Arc: Virgin Warrior

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students view a documentary on Joan of Arc. She is one of the most venerated saints in the Catholic religion, yet she was burned at the stake as a heretic. After viewing, students discuss what they saw and write a newspaper column...
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Profiles of the Framers

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the early lives of the Framers, and the historical events that may have influenced the decisions they made at the convention. Students conduct research on the Framers, writing newspaper articles, pamphlets, or dramas.
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Grey Owl - Secondary

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers conduct research on the conservationist Archibald Stansfeld Belaney, also known as Grey Owl. They write and prepare a formal debate and create a fictional newspaper, evaluating whether Grey Owl should be remembered as a...
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Continuation of the Revolution

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research important inventions from the second half of the Industrial Revolution. They summarize their research and then write and publish a newspaper style article.

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