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Tourism

Tourists help create additional jobs for a community. They also bring money to the community's economy. Find three articles or ads from your paper about places tourists might visit in your community.

Subject:

Economics

Grade:

3rd

Skill or Strand:

Basic Concepts

Standard:

Students demonstrate understanding of basic economic reasoning.

Agriculture

Look through your newspaper and find articles that mention something that might have an impact on agriculture. Write one sentence beside each article explaining why agriculture might be affected.

Subject:

Life Science

Grade:

1st

Skill or Strand:

Ecosystems

Standard:

Students identify that the sun warms the land and that living things have needs.

Let's Go!

Using the travel section (advertisements and news articles) from your newspaper plan a trip to somewhere in the United States or Canada (Alaska and Hawaii included). Be sure to include the following: What form of transportation will be used? How much will it cost? What kind of clothes will you need to take? (Clip ads from the newspaper for this.) What special points of interest do you want to see? What special activities are schedules that you do not want to miss? Include a map showing your travel route. This report can be given orally using your visual aids or written

Subject:

Speaking

Grade:

4th 5th 6th 7th 8th

Skill or Strand:

Presentation

Standard:

Students make informational presentations.

Say What You Will

Look through the newspaper and cut out at least two pictures of people or animals doing something interesting or unusual. Cut out only the photograph. Write a short dialogue among the characters in the two pictures. Trade pictures with a partner. Write dialogue for your partner's pictures. Compare your dialogues. Were your thoughts the same or were they different from your partner's? Now try writing a new dialogue together.

Subject:

Writing

Grade:

5th 6th 7th 8th

Skill or Strand:

Punctuation

Standard:

Students use quotation marks around exact words of a speaker.

Energy at Work

There are many sources for producing energy: sun*** water***gas/oil etc. Use the advertising sections of the newspaper to find items that use energy in order to work. Label the items with their correct sources of energy.

Subject:

Physical Science

Grade:

3rd 8th

Skill or Strand:

Energy

Standard:

Students identify that energy has multiple forms.