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Problem Solving

Is there a story in the paper about people who have a terrible problem? What is the problem? What caused the problem? How would you solve the problem? List your solution step-by-step. Send it to the editor of the paper.

Subject:

Current Events

Grade:

2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th

Skill or Strand:

Problem Solving

Standard:

Students explain the ways in which groups and nations interact to try and resolve problems.

Filler Up

Many times newspapers have small spaces to fill at the bottom of a column. The short items they use to fill these spaces are called fillers. They are seldom examples of timely news. Find examples of fillers in your newspaper. Collect them.

Subject:

Newspaper

Grade:

6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th

Skill or Strand:

Layout

Standard:

Students understand the use of fillers in newspapers.

Transportation

Look through your newspaper to find pictures of different ways people travel. Paste these pictures on a piece of paper with the title MODERN TRANSPORTATION. On another piece of paper draw or collect pictures or words of ways people used to travel before the 1900s'. Title it TRANSPORTATION OF THE PAST. Are there some methods that appear on both pages?

Subject:

Economics

Grade:

4th 5th 8th

Skill or Strand:

Basic Concepts

Standard:

Students explain the economic history of their state by tracing the transformation of the economy.

Labor Unions

Labor unions were organized to help workers get fair working conditions and wages. What evidence can you find in your newspaper that labor unions might still be needed? What evidence can you find that labor unions aren't needed any longer?

Subject:

Economics

Grade:

8th 11th

Skill or Strand:

Human Resources

Standard:

Students analyze the transformation of the American economy and the changing social and political conditions in the U. S. in response to the Industrial Revolution in terms of big business and the rise of labor unions.

Your Time

What do you do with your time? Find pictures in the newspaper to tell your time story. What do you do in the morning at noon and in the afternoon after school? What's for dinner and what is on your schedule for the early evening hours?

Subject:

History

Grade:

2nd 3rd 4th

Skill or Strand:

Time

Standard:

Students differentiate between those things that happened long ago and yesterday by placing their life events in the order they occurred.