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High Living

Locate an apartment for rent in the classified section. Cut out five different monthly rent payments. Arrange the payments in order from the lowest amount to the highest amount. Figure the cost of renting each apartment for one year. What is the difference between the most and least expensive?

Subject:

Operations

Grade:

4th 5th 6th 7th 8th

Skill or Strand:

Money

Standard:

Students compare and order money amounts; use repeated addition or multiplication to solve problems; calculate problems involving subtraction.

Rent or Own

Look in the classifieds. Make a bar graph showing the number of houses for sale and the number of places for rent. Which group is larger? What factors might be responsible? Can you find articles to support your opinions?

Subject:

History

Grade:

6th 7th 8th

Skill or Strand:

Cause & Effect

Standard:

Students understand long and short-term causal relationships.

Evaluating Advertising

Look through the newspaper to find three ads you think are effective or well designed. For each ad list the reasons you think so. What reasons do they have in common?

Subject:

Reading

Grade:

3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th

Skill or Strand:

Analysis of Text

Standard:

Students support analysis of text with literal and inferential information.

Career Choices

Many professionals and their work are mentioned in the newspaper. Find ten professions mentioned in today's newspaper that you think are the most unusual. Cut them out and paste them on a paper in order from most to least uncommon. Who has the strangest list? Do you personally know anyone who is involved with any of the professions?

Subject:

School-to-Career

Grade:

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

Skill or Strand:

Human Resources

Standard:

Students demonstrate knowledge of how human resources produce goods and services.

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:

Skill or Strand:

Human Resources

Standard:

Students understand that history relates to people.