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Write All About It
Fourth graders use research skills and the writing process to create a newspaper. Although students work in groups to complete the final draft of the newspaper, each student is responsible for doing his or her own research and writing...
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Play Reporters
Pupils are given an article from a local newspaper. They summarize the article and participate in a broadcast over the articles.
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County Chronicles
Students review and use the information from previous lessons about their county. In groups, they write articles for various sections of a class newspaper. They review and edit each others work and publish their newspaper using a desktop...
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Activity #7 Recycling of Newsprint
Learners illustrate the paper recycling process. They collect and weigh all the newspapers that come to their house in a week's time. Pupils multiply this number by all the weeks in a yeat and again by an estimate of the number of...
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Spanish-American War
Students view a video called Battling Beyond the Borders about the Spanish-American War. They discuss the role of newspapers in the war and then analyze political cartoons of the time, writing explanatory sentences about them.
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The Price is Right - Advertisements
Fourth graders design written advertisements using cut out items from catalogs or newspapers in order to persuade consumers.
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SPEAK NO EVIL
Students explore different means of communication by looking at magazines, newspapers, formal and informal language.
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Extra, Extra Write All About It!
Pupils examine photographs from newspapers and write a headline and story for one of the examples. In this news writing lesson, students analyze a photograph as a class and discuss it. Pupils analyze photographs and example headlines...
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Career Bulletin Board
Learners examine and discuss different careers. They use magazines and newspapers to find pictures of a career of interest to them. They create a career collage for a bulletin board display.
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Extra, Extra, Write All About It!
Students examine photographs from newspapers and write a headline and story to accompany one.
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That's a Fact
Third graders use various media (newspapers, magazines, brochures, catalogs, etc.) to distinguish fact from opinion
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It's in the Paper! (Newspaper In Education Unit)
Fourth graders brainstorm a list of the kinds of information found in newspapers, present examples, and state how reading a newspaper is useful to them and people they know.
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Creating a Newspaper
Students facilitate to comprehend the importance of newspapers in today's world. They facilitate to assemble the components of a newspaper. Students use the steps of the writing process to publish a newspaper.
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Current Events Lesson Plan 10
Young scholars take a closer look at world events. In this current events lesson, students discuss the role of the newspaper throughout history. Young scholars also discern which sources for news are credible and look at international...
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Calculating Interest
Students solve interest problems for bank accounts and loans to gain real life experience. They also review newspapers and find a car they wish to purchase then are given a rate and time of loan.
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Producers of Goods and Services
Students use newspapers to brainstorm a list of the producers of goods and services in their community. In groups, they organize coupons based on the good or service and create a chart to organize the information. They discuss the...
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Hometown Ecology
Students examine how ecology is at work in their own community. As a class, they identify what they already know about the world around them and discuss how they personally affect the environment. Using magazines, newspapers and the...
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Bias in Journalism
Students evaluate the credibility and reliability of various sources. Students survey the coverage of a particular event in different newspapers, select a current event and compare different perspectives. They write an article...
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Freedom of Expression in Special Places
Students identify at least three places presenting First Amendment problems. They analyze how the First Amendment applies to school newspapers. Students argue for and against limiting First Amendment rights in school. They analyze th...
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Understanding the Newspaper
Students examine newspapers and identify the elements included in them. After discussing newspapers, they conduct a scavenger hunt to identify the paper's elements such as headlines, bylines, and illustrations.
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Make a Paper Mache Bowl
Students create a paper mache bowl. In this paper mache lesson plan, students use wallpaper paste, newspapers, and paint brushes to construct a paper mache bowl. Students decorate their bowl with unique designs.
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Weather Timeline
Students create a timeline of historical weather events in Bedfordshire, England. In this local weather lesson, students interview elders, research the Internet and newspapers to gather information about weather events of the past. the...
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Campaign 2000
Students research newspapers and the Internet to learn about the election. Students work in groups and choose a state that they want to compare to Florida. Students organize the data they have found into a graph labeling an "x" and "y"...
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The Space Race in the '50's
Learners explore the impact of the space race. For this 1950's America lesson, students examine newspapers from the time period as well as Apollo mission episodes. Learners then create journals from the perspectives of Apollo astronauts.
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