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Luxury & Necessity

Things that are necessary to our survival are needs. Luxuries make our lives easier or more pleasant but are not critical to daily living. Look through advertisements to find pictures or words that would be considered necessary. Mount them on a paper titled NECESSITIES. Find pictures of wants or luxuries and paste them on a paper titled LUXURIES. Which is longer? Why do you think this is so?

Subject:

Economics

Grade:

3rd 4th 5th

Skill or Strand:

Basic Concepts

Standard:

Students demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills.

New and Used

Find five items for sale in the newspaper. Chart the items and their prices. Can you find the same items for sale used? What is the difference in price? What are the advantages/disadvantages of buying new and used?

Subject:

Economics

Grade:

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

Skill or Strand:

Basic Concepts

Standard:

Students conduct cost/benefit analyses to analyze economic issues.

Opposites Attract

Antonyms are words that mean the opposite of each other. How many antonym pairs can you find? Look through the newspaper and cut out all the antonym pairs you can find. Put some of them together in a crazy sentence.

Subject:

Reading

Grade:

3rd 4th 5th 6th

Skill or Strand:

Vocabulary Development

Standard:

Students use antonyms to determine meaning of words and phrases.

Names in the News

Display pictures of newsmakers in your classroom. Cover their names and see if you can identify those newsmakers. Change the display every month. Keep the old pictures in a file. At the end of the month display all the old pictures again. How many of the newsmakers can you and your classmates still identify? Which newsmakers appear in the paper most often?

Subject:

History

Grade:

6th 7th 8th

Skill or Strand:

Time

Standard:

Students conduct timelines of various people.

Pollution Solution

Pollution happens when damaging things are placed in our environment. There are several kinds of pollution in the news each day. Find as many articles as you can that discuss preventive measures being used to fight pollution. Make a list detailing the techniques being used to prevent pollution. Beside each technique list the organization or group of people who is using it.

Subject:

Physical Science

Grade:

8th 9th 10th

Skill or Strand:

Energy

Standard:

Students understand that the utility of energy sources is determined by factors that are involved in converting these sources to useful forms; and the consequences of the conversion processes.