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History Buff: Colonial America Newspapers and Transcripts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains a brief history of newspapers in colonial America. Also provides links to the texts of the papers themselves, looking back at the actual words used in American Colonial newspapers.
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Library of Congress

Loc: 100 Years Ago Today

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment...
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Civil War Home

Home of the American Civil War: Propaganda in the Civil War

For Students 9th - 10th
Propaganda was practiced by both the Union and Confederacy. Read the many ways propaganda was used both officially and unofficially. From "The Civil War and Reconstruction" by Randall and Donald.
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New Zealand Ministry of Education

Nz Ministry of Education: Extra! Extra!

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
In this instructional activity students will learn about newspapers including the parts of a newspaper, purpose, and structure of articles. They will gather, record and present information from a variety of sources, using different...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Worm Turns Lesson Plan: Molly of Denali

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson, based on the animated story "The Worm Turns" from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, helps children use several types of informational texts to gather facts. In the video, Molly and her friends are frightened after hearing...
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Can Teach

Can Teach: Abbreviations and Acronyms

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Students can find and analyze different abbreviations and acronyms using newspapers. An online abbreviation and acronym dictionary is linked to this lesson plan for 4th grade.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Source: No Stamped Paper to Be Had

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson plan that directs students through the process of using primary source documents to understand the colonists' objections to the Stamp Act.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Through 10 lessons and more than 20 hands-on activities, students are introduced to the concept of an environment and the many interactions within it. As they learn about natural and human-made environments, as well as renewable and...
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Newspapers in Education

Ni Eonline: Cartoons for the Classroom: Lessons Library

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Newspapers in Education and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists publish simple, inventive lesson plans and ideas for classes in editorial cartooning, caption writing, and news analysis. Lessons include "cartoon blanks" that...
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University of Washington

Pacific Northwest Regional Newspaper & Periodical Index

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Covering newspapers, magazines, monographs, theses, dissertations and other material, this index goes back as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Very useful for locating primary source material on the Pacific Northwest region.
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Abyz News Links

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides listings of links to online news sources from all over the world. Just type the country you're looking for in the search box or use the front page links. The news sources for each country are labeled either broadcast...
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Electronic Text Center: The Modern English Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection contains fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts, and illustrations from 1500 to the present, arranged for browsing by author's last name or by category of interest. It contains classics such...
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University of Arizona

University of Arizona Library: Chicago Manual of Style

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Good site for learning how to use Chicago Manual of Style. Gives examples on how to cite books, journals, newspapers or online articles, lectures, interviews, e-mail and websites. Also contains links to MLA Style Manual, APA Publication...
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PBS

Pbs: Empire of the Air: Power and Impact of Radio

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will listen to historic news events as broadcast on radio, view current news coverage on television, and compare and contrast how those events were reported on both media by developing an essay which addresses the question "Is...
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Broward Education Foundation

Broward Education Foundation: News Is Knowledge! [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The project provides teachers with ideas to create literacy centers for use in their own classrooms using student-friendly newspapers from various curricular areas. We will provide plans that can be used to adapt the materials each week....
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Library of Congress

Loc: The Grapes of Wrath: Voices From the Great Depression

For Teachers 9th - 10th
By examining primary sources, including songs, newspapers, interviews, and photographs of migrant farm workers in California during the Great Depression, students create a scrapbook from the point of view of a migrant worker, providing...
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Alaska Department of Education: Alaska's Gold

For Students 3rd - 8th
This comprehensive resource looks at the discovery of gold through the use of nonconventional means. Students read diaries, newspapers, maps, photographs, and government documents and view things people used in their everyday lives.
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Library of Congress

Loc: The Building of the Titanic

For Students 9th - 10th
Before the Titanic disaster, what did the world know about the ship? Use these articles from early newspapers, dated 1908 to 1910, to read about the exciting news of the building of the Titanic.
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Cwec: Water in the News (Lesson) [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Water issues frequently appear in local newspapers and this lesson plan explains ways this resource can be used in the classroom.
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News Art: Pope John Paul Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains links to drawings of Pope John Paul II that have been used in newspapers. Many political cartoons.
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Curated OER

Nitroglycerine Explosion in San Francisco

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the use of nitroglycerine in the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad.
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Curated OER

Nitrogylcerine Explosion in San Francisco

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the use of nitroglycerine in the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad.
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Curated OER

Nitroglycerine Explosion in San Francisco

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the use of nitroglycerine in the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad.
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Curated OER

Nitroglycerine Explosion in San Francisco

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the use of nitroglycerine in the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad.

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