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New & 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:

Operations

Grade:

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

Skill or Strand:

Money

Standard:

Students use addition and subtraction of money to compare prices.

Tomorrow's History

Look through the newspaper each day and cut out articles that discuss things or events that might be in the history books 100 years from now. Mount your articles on paper and save them in a file. Discuss the people mentioned and their contributions. At the end of the year review the file. Do you still think those events might be worth mentioning 100 years from now? What events that have taken place since make you think your choices may have been good or bad?

Subject:

Current Events

Grade:

2nd 3rd 4th 5th 8th 11th 12th

Skill or Strand:

Cause & Effect

Standard:

Students identify and interpret the multiple causes and effects of historical events.

Common Ground

Finding ways that groups of people are the same often helps in finding resolution to conflicts. Find an example of a conflict in the newspaper. Make a list of ways the people on both sides of the conflict are the same. How could these similarities help them resolve their conflict?

Subject:

Community

Grade:

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

Skill or Strand:

Citizenship

Standard:

Students describe the importance of public virtue and the role of citizens including how to participate in a community.

Grading Education

Start an Education Issues Board for articles pertaining to education. On one side mount articles that deal favorably with current education issues. On the other side place the articles that fail education. Which side has more articles? Discuss the reasons and implications of this. Write a letter to the editor describing your findings.

Subject:

Research

Grade:

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

Skill or Strand:

Gathering Information

Standard:

Students explore questions that can be answered by research; students assess the credibility of primary sources and draw sound conclusions from them.

All in a Day's Paper

Use today's newspaper to cut out an example of a story that tells about each of the following: Health Sports Local News National News World News Science. Use the index of the newspaper to write down two other kinds of stories found in today's paper.

Subject:

Reading

Grade:

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

Skill or Strand:

Comprehension

Standard:

Students locate and group different information in a newspaper by category.