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Reporter rights vs. legal access...

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students write an article to inform readers about confidentiality with reporters, attempting to find local lawyers and journalists to explain the issues as they relate to them. Students research past cases and the status of the current...
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Stepping in: Good Samaritan or Fool?

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Pupils write an opinion piece, including facts of this situation and any other statistics about helping others during a fight. Students offer suggestions about how to break up a fight, or when not to try (based on what national experts...
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Accident Pinpoints Dangerous Site

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read about local accident sites and conduct research of areas of high incidence. They interview police and insurance agents and explore what can be done if a site has multiple accidents. They write a news feature about the...
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Exploring Hybrid Cars

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore GreenHybird.com and develop a list of questions car buyers might have. Students also attempt to answer the questions on GreenHybrid.com and then explore the answers with car dealers in the area before writing a clear and...
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Sunshine Week: Your right to know

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students read background material about accessing open records, including how to file a Freedom of Information request. Students choose a restaurant close to school they want to investigate and contact the county health inspection office...
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Vandalism leads to locked bathrooms

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners research bathroom vandalism in other schools like Freedom High after reading an article about Freedom High and their situation. Students then decide if their school has a similar problem and interview administrators and janitors...
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If Hornets Could Talk

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders create a school newspaper. In this journalism lesson students write articles for a school newspaper. They also create an informational website. the projects are both on-going.
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Newscast From An Ancient City

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders produce a newscast from an Ancient Roman city. In this journalism and history lesson, 7th graders work in groups to dramatize a historical event from the Roman Empire. students sequence the events, role-play, and create...
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Writing a Class/School Newspaper

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students use their interviewing skills to gather information for a school newspaper. They summarize their interview and create an article for the school newspaper. Students develop the article, edit it using the spell check and revise...
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Ethics and Hazelwood: What Journalists Should and Can Write

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students explore the code of ethics in journalism. In this journalism ethics instructional activity, students use Hazelwood and Tinker to explore journalism ethics. Students compare ethics of journalists and pirates, read a related...
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Yellow Journalism in the Spanish-American War

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students write a newspaper based on events in the year 1898 using Yellow Journalism, the exaggeration of facts or events.
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The Weekly News, Part 2

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use articles they've previously written to produce a school news broadcast. In this journalism lesson, 6th graders discuss the goals of a news broadcast and use previously written articles to plan a news broadcast. Students...
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The Daily News

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students complete a news writing activity and improve their writing skills. In this news writing lesson, students write about an activity they experience each day of the week. Students use the articles to make a newspaper about their year.
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Bovine Oversteps Boundaries

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders read a newspaper account of "Grady the Silo Cow" and complete news-writing activities. For this news-writing lesson, 7th graders read the newspaper account about the cow. Students examine newspapers and work in groups to...
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Writing a News Report

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore journalism by analyzing current events. In this news report lesson, students identify important questions to ask during an interview and discuss a fictitious news story about a missing teacher. Students read published...
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Photo Editing and Photo Ethics

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
students investigate how to editphotos and understand the ethics of photo-editing in regard to photo-journalism. In this photo journalism lesson, students examine photos and photo spreads in various sources to identify editing...
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Writing: The Reporter Game

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students participate in a game in which they create stories for an imaginary newspaper. In this journalism and writing lesson, students are encouraged to write more than one story.
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Getting A Story

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students encounter the do's and dont's to journalism writing. Students unearth the facts of a story by watching an animated clip. Students grasp the deeper understanding of the facts of a story and how to write it correctly.
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Progressive Newspapers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a newspaper on local, state and national issues in the muckracking style of progessive era journalism. They research the style by reading articles from the time period on women's sufrage, child labor laws and political...
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Press Release

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders write and publish a press release. In this news writing lesson, 7th graders analyze press releases from various online sources. Students write a press release about a major event in their school.
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Extra, Extra Write All About It!

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students examine photographs from newspapers and write a headline and story for one of the examples. In this news writing lesson plan, students analyze a photograph as a class and discuss it. Students analyze photographs and example...
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Solving Mysteries!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students solve a mystery. In this lesson on journalism, students learn how writing an article is like solving a mystery by answering the 5 "W" questions. Students solve a mystery provided to them on an attached worksheet.
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Let's Read the Newspaper

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students investigate the format of a typical newspaper.  In this journalism lesson, students read a newspaper from a target language and discover the vocabulary associated with the news.  Students work together as a newspaper...
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Personal Narratives

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students discover journalism by writing about themselves.  In this non-fiction writing lesson, students discuss the outline of a personal narrative and write a paper about an experience they've had.  Students reflect on the...

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