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What's Missing

Pass out or show pictures from the newspaper with a piece of the picture missing. Students ask questions that can only be answered YES or NO to determine what is missing.

Subject:

Investigations & Methods

Grade:

5th 6th

Skill or Strand:

Reports

Standard:

Students ask questions to seek information not already discussed.

Characteristics

Choose a comic strip character and read the comic strip for one week. Look at the situations this character gets into. Think about the way he or she looks acts and talks. Create a list of words that describe the character. After you have a good list of descriptive words write a character sketch (summary) of your comic strip person.

Subject:

Reading

Grade:

3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th

Skill or Strand:

Comprehension

Standard:

Students determine what characters are like by what they say and do.

Meaning of Editorial Cartoons

Editorial cartoons usually deliver a comment on a society's values*** politics or current issues. Find an editorial cartoon you do not understand. Write three questions asking for information you are unsure about. Questions might be related to who the people are what or the symbols mean or whatever confuses you.

Subject:

Research

Grade:

6th 7th 8th 11th 12th

Skill or Strand:

Resources

Standard:

Students assess the credibility of sources and draw conclusions; students detect different points of view and determine the context including the author's perspective. Students frame questions that can be answered by study and research.

What's Missing

Pass out or show pictures from the newspaper with a piece of the picture missing. Students ask questions that can only be answered YES or NO to determine what is missing.

Subject:

Investigations & Methods

Grade:

4th 5th 6th

Skill or Strand:

Questioning

Standard:

Students ask thoughtful questions.

Fraction Action

Draw a short line on your paper. Count the entire number of pictures that appear in the paper. Write this amount below your line. Count the number of pictures that appear only in the sports section. Write this number above your line. You now have a fraction that shows what fraction of the paper's photos are sports photos. Can you make fractions to show what fraction of the pages in the newspaper have advertising? Or what fraction has comics? Or what fraction has local news?

Subject:

Operations

Grade:

3rd 4th 5th 6th

Skill or Strand:

Fractions

Standard:

Students write a fraction represented by parts of a whole or parts of a set.