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Cleveland debates: Port or Park?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students perform research on the Web and in books or newspapers the planning going on recently in Cleveland. They read the longshoremen's objections. Students choose sides and prepare your arguments, using visual aids and facts and figures.
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Recycling: Problem solved or problem ongoing?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students research on the Web, magazines, and newspapers the extent of waste and recycling situation has been solved. They focus on the community, get facts and figures to show how recycling goes on there.
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Eminent Domain: Whose Land is it Anyway?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research eminent domain and whether or not there has been a land dispute in their community. Students search local newspapers, local history books or talk with civic leaders and long-time citizens and create a chart showing the...
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Writing Bug - Inquiring Minds Want to Know - #5

For Students 4th - 6th
In this journal writing activity, students are given four headlines for news stories published in tabloid newspapers. Students write the story that might have matched one of the headlines.
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When the News is the News

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students share opinions about the factors that influence their newspaper-reading decisions. They study the News Corporation's purchase of Dow Jones & Company by reading and discussing the article "Dow Jones Deal Gives Murdoch a...
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Graphs in the News

For Students 4th - 6th
In this graphs worksheet, students locate 2 kinds of graphs in the newspaper and answer short answer questions about them. Students complete 3 questions.
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Learning the Component and Information Found in the Newspaper

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders work in a group to identify and reference the index, front page, metro page, state and local pages, as well as the sports, comics and classifieds in the newspaper 90% of the time during the game of "Identifying and...
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Labor Day Newspaper

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students examine the history of the Labor Day holiday and write a newspaper article about it. They practice using new vocabulary words and discover the layout of a newspaper.
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Is that a Fact? Reading the Newspaper

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders are given a newspaper article. They predict the content based on the title, read and chart fact and opinion statements, and conclude by summarizing the article. They utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to guide their...
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Newspaper Stories

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars examine the structure of the newspaper. In this newspaper lesson, students look at the different types of articles about giving, sharing, and acts for the common good. They realize the types of voice that are used in the...
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Editing for AP (and Newspaper's) style

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners edit and revise a news story picked out by the teacher. For this editing lesson plan, young scholars edit in AP style and then revise the story. It should have no errors in the end.
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Newspapers in Education-Sampling Italian Foods

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students use the food and entertainment section of the newspaper to find Italian restaurants in their area. They write a letter to one of the restaurants asking the restaurant to bring some sample dishes to their classroom for a project....
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The Use of Printed Page- Newspapers, magazines and advertising

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Learners study the process of making paper.  In this papermaking lesson students see the benefits of a printed page and creat their own paper.
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Examining newspapers

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students compare and contrast tabloid and broadsheet papers. In this journalism lesson, students examine how techniques and form differs from one type of publication to the other. The culminating activity is for students to take what...
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Distinguishing Fact and Opinion

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students pick up clues in the wordage of a sentence to determine if it is factual and give reasons for their feelings. They explain difference between statements of hard fact as found on the front page of a newspaper from that of an...
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What is the Population Distribution of Cartoon Characters Living On the Pages of Your Newspaper?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils read various cartoons in their local newspaper and calculate the population demographics, spatial distribution and grouping of the characters. Using this information, they create a population distribution map and share them with...
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A Mayan Adventure - Special Assignment

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students role-play the role of a reporter for their school's newspaper. Pretending they are visiting Mexico and Central America, they research the answers to questions given to them by their teacher. They discuss their answers and the...
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Extra! Extra! Titanic Sinks

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 before writing a newspaper page that includes facts about the event. They role play as reporters, editors, and survivors of the disaster while writing and designing a front page...
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What is in the Newspaper?

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this language arts worksheet, students examine the parts of a newspaper by examining a front page format. Students match 5 elements to where they are on the page and answer 5 questions.
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Read All About It! Looking at Newspapers.

For Students 5th - 7th
In this newspaper worksheet, students read about emotive language, then choose headlines that are most likely to excite a reader, re-write headlines, replacing words with more emotive words, and read a short article and answer 3 related...
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The Language Of Crime Newspaper Reporting

For Students 6th - 8th
In this language of crime reporting worksheet, students read, write and discuss newspaper reports about crime, using fill ins, matching, and a crossword puzzle with notes for the teacher and an answer sheet.
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Creating a Digital Newspaper

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students create a digital newspaper. In this digital newspaper instructional activity, students review the sections of a newspaper and brainstorm ideas for their paper. Students complete a schools news report, student interview, opinion...
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Aahimsa in the Real World: Identifying Ahimsa

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders become familiar with the use of the newspaper and how it educates people. For this ahimsa lesson, 2nd graders recognize the importance of Gandhi and his beliefs. Students read articles and answer questions about ahimsa.
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Newspapers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a class newspaper about the Olympics.  In this newspaper lesson, students discuss the basic characteristics of each component of the newspaper.  Students work in small groups to complete stations on cartoons,...