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So You Want to Be a TV Reporter!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students work in pairs to interview each other. They identify interviewing skills and methods, conduct a preliminary interview, develop a working script from the notes and participate in a final interview for the camera.
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What Do Maps Show?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars discover the uses for various types of maps. In this geography skills lesson, students discuss the type of maps that exist and what their individual features are. Young scholars then practice using different types of maps.
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Hands On: Make a Clock and Show Time to 5 Minutes

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this telling time worksheet, students use the analog clocks in the first two examples to count time in five minute increments. Students then answer four questions about elapsed time.
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On With the Show!

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners think about comedy skits, based on family or domestic situations, and stage one of their own.
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VOLC TV News Team

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Students produce a 5 minute internet news cast about an active volcano
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Thrusting Greatness Upon the Television 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create mini-scenes using two random lines from Orsino's speech.  In this Twelfth Night lesson, students are given random lines from Orsino's speech and create a skit using their given lines at the beginning and the end...
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Show 303: New Research into Dyslexia

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore the causes of dyslexia. They view CT sans and MRIs to view the brain and how it responds. Students read reports about dyslexia. They discuss the nature of dyslexia, its cause, how to diagnose it, and its permanency.
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Persuasive Techniques in Advertising

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Help your 21st century learners develop their media smarts with this resource that has them examine the persuasive techniques advertisers use to influence specific demographics and then to use these techniques to craft their own ads.
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AdMaker, Nixon vs. Humphrey, “Convention” (1968)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
After viewing the infamous 1968 Presidential campaign ad, "Convention," groups use AdMaker to create their own 30 second ad that features Richard Nixon rather than Hubert Humphrey.
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Students’ Response to 9/11—A Documentary Report

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Young historians research the devastating attacks of 9/11 and use that information to script their own documentaries. The follow-up activity includes recording the documentary and conducting classmate interviews, 
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Reporting War: a Comparison of News Reports on Vietnam And Operation Enduring Freedom

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students research how television news shows reported on the War in Vietnam. They describe how television news shows reported on the Iraqi War and compare the two coverages. They contrast how are they similar and how they are different.
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You Choose the News

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the process used in choosing the news. They serve as guest editors and select newsworthy stories for the evening news program. Students explore how news is selected by editors and gain insight into the making of the...
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Talk Back

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students study print and TV ads and search for examples in which advertising companies rely on negative stereotypes or misleading information to market their products.
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Fabulously Famous ABC'S

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders write a script for an imaginary two-minute radio interview with a famous (past/present) talk show host. .Working in groups of two or more, 6th graders practice their interview with another.
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To Tell the Truth: Will the Real Warren G. Harding Please Step Forward!

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders play the role of historians, working to become experts on Warren G. Harding's private and public life. They become contestants in a simulation of the popular 1970s television show "To Tell the Truth".
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Images in Action

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the concept of tolerance as variety of images and words are probed for expressions of misinformation and stereotyping. Advertisements, textbooks, public monuments, historical markers, TV shows, Web sites, logos and...
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What Do You Really Mean?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Student and parent watch a television show together (situation comedy or drama) while looking for various ways the characters communicate with each other and discuss which way of communicating is the most effective.
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What Is Hot?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore why: Schools are hotbeds of popular young opinion about what to wear, which music to listen to, and what TV shows to watch. For this activity, students extend their fascination with "what's hot" to the books they read by...
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Destination UK: Scotland

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the country of Scotland. They brainstorm what they know about Scotland and draw a mind map of their ideas. They explore the Gaelic language and read about living in Scotland. They discuss a reality television show and...
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Star Trek - The Next Generation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
For this word search worksheet, students search and find vocabulary words as they relate to the television show Star Trek - The Next Generation. Words may be located forward, backward, up, down, and diagonally.
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Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this word search worksheet, middle schoolers search and find vocabulary words as they relate to the television show Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Words may be located forward, backward, up, down, and diagonally.
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Mythbusters Puzzle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this word search worksheet, students search and find vocabulary words as they relate to the television show Mythbusters. Words may be located forward, backward, up, down, and diagonally.
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Rugrats Word Search Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this word search worksheet, student locate 18 words that are associated with the children's television show "Rugrats." They find the words that are located in a word bank at the bottom of the page.
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Sesame Street Word Search

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this Sesame Street word search worksheet, students read the names of 9 characters from the children's TV show. Students find them in a word search puzzle.

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