Be a Weather Newscaster

Ever wonder why the most controversial or dramatic news stories are the first ones in a newscast? Evaluate every part of a television newscast, including the anchor's posture and facial expressions, the time allotted to each news story,...

Students identify and demonstrate the use of one weather monitoring instrumentation. Students compare and calculate the accuracy of their predictions and name the common weather patterns and systems. Students determine percent error of...

Young surveyors look for patterns in water flow around campus. Using a map of the school (that you will need to create), they mark the direction of the path of water. They also perform calculations for the volume that becomes runoff. The...

Step into the shoes of a newscast director with a media analysis activity. High schoolers look over vocabulary for news media before deciding which three of five stories they'd want to air on tonight's news, based on exclusivity, viewer...

Students examine the components of effective writing for different purposes. In this ELL lesson, students determine cause and effect, examine how essays are constructed to express ideas, needs, feelings and attitudes. They will also...

Get those kids brainstorming about the types of jobs or careers they'd love to have. Then have them dive into a career-focused research project. Pupils take an interest survey, discuss career clusters, then work through the provided...

Students explore the characteristics of the different ecosystems on Earth.  In this environmental lesson students participate in a class activity to show the different ecosystems around the world.

Students compare weather forecasting prediction to actual weather over a given period of time. They describe tools that meteorologists use to predict the weather; gather information from newscasts, maps and the Internet; and check the...

Students analyze time constraints on broadcast news. They apply data collecting and data display skills. They identify the difference between news progams and the evening news.