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What's the Scoop on Slang?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine examples of sports jargon by reading sports articles from a newspaper. They write a news article about a fictional sports event using examples of sports jargon.
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Pendemonium Unnatural Selection: Quotation Marks

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice the correct use of quotation marks. In this grammar lesson, students watch and then discuss a video on the use of quotation marks. Students find examples of quotation marks in books and periodicals and then convert...
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Pressures and Responsibities

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars recognize some of the physical dangers of smoking. They discuss personal responsibilities regarding smoking and peruse magazines and newspapers to find at least one tobacco advertisement.
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DONDE VIVES?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners discuss the rooms of a house, using location expression. They work in groups as "extended families" and use magazine pictures to describe their relatives.
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Press Perception of Jack Johnson

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students role-play the role of journalists during the 19th and 20th centuries. They create their own sports newspapers. They report on Jack Johnson's life and career.
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Bottle Dolls/Figurative Sculpture

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students use water bottles with sand in them (to give stability) They add heads made of crumpled newspaper with masking tape. They paper mache the entire figure and make them into people or animals. Students add paint and accessories...
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Creating Circles

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students make a circle graph. In this graphing lesson, the teacher conducts a class survey, then demonstrates how to make a pie graph. When students are comfortable with the material, they use a worksheet to create their own graph.
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Worksheet for Analysis of an Advertisement

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students critique advertisements in magazines, newspapers and telephone books.  In this advertising lesson, students complete a class activity in which they locate specific advertisements, then answer questions that analyze the...
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Touring Through the Beginning of Earth

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students simulate the role of reporters and research two major theories on how the Earth was formed. They create and write a series of newspaper articles on the theories of beginning life on Earth for the newspaper's front page.
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When a Chair is More than A Chair.....

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students research an artist of their choice and design a piece of art that represents that artist to them. They make sketches, plan their armature, cut out armature, pad with newspapers and apply layers of paper mach??.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Communicate Effectively on Health and Nutrition Topics

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Students, while reviewing an extensive vocabulary list on the board, identify basic food groups with the help of picture cards. As a group, they create a collage of healthy and unhealthy foods using pictures from magazines and newspapers.
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Operation Weather Station

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students work in cooperative groups to create a working weather station. Tkey use the weather station to collect weather data over a one-week period. Students compare the data from their weather station to actual weather information...
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Front Page News

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students collect and analyze the front pages of various newspapers and perform research on the Titantic tragedy. They choose a name for their newspaper, a headline, gather photographs, and write a front page article. Using computer...
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Setting Up Shop

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate what goes in to starting a retail store. In this business economics instructional activity, 7th graders brainstorm products they would like to sell and use magazines, newspapers and real estate listings to...
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Identifying Watersheds with Topographic Maps

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students model a watershed and delineate one using topographic maps. In this hydrology lesson, students use aluminum foil to model a landscape and observe how water moves on it. They also observe the features of a topographic map and use...
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The Ancient Times

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars create a newspaper sharing stories of Cleopatra before her death. They use the internet to research information about her and the time in which she lived. They share their newspaper articles with others.
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Lesson 11: Printed Materials (Ads and Broadsides) 1780-1820

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars use primary resources (gazettes, broadsides, advertisements) to consider life at the turn of the 18th century in Deerfield, Massachusetts. They infer observations about life in the nascent United States.
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Natural Resources

For Teachers K - 12th
Students explore Iowa geography and topographic maps. For 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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Covering the News

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students compare the coverage of two crime stories Using local or national newspapers, news magazines and other reference materials, each group trace the "unfolding" of two crime stories: The Laci Peterson investigation plus one students
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Encapsulating Moments in Time

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students look back at this year in history and evaluate important events, discoveries and people from 1998. They, in groups, create 1998: Year in Review. While 1998 has come and gone, the idea and intent for this lesson can be used now.
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Chinese Kite

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars create their own Chinese kite. In this multicultural art lesson, students use butcher paper, newspapers, string, pipe cleaners and paint to create a Chinese kite. Young scholars follow the given steps and attempt to fly...
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Clouds

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students observe and record different types of clouds. They use a cloud chart to discuss the three cloud types to see if students can identify the clouds they drew.
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Getting the News about the Stamp Act

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students review opinions of the Stamp Act as stated in colonial newspaper articles of the 1760's. They compare colonial newspapers to those of today. They take a side regarding the Tax Act and write a note to a friend explaining their...
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Stock Tables: Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Learners investigate how to read stock tables and research stock tables in newspapers or on the Internet. They discuss how they would invest $1000 in stock, examine how to keep track of their shares online, and complete a worksheet in...

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