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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:

K 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th

Skill or Strand:

Jobs

Standard:

Students match simple descriptions of work that people do and names of those jobs with examples from school*** local*** community and historical accounts.

Body Systems

There are eight major body systems in a human: digestive circulatory nervous skeletal respiratory reproductive muscular and skin. Create a journal using articles about each body system. Label each article with the name of the correct body system it concerns.

Subject:

Life Science

Grade:

5th 7th 9th 10th

Skill or Strand:

Systems

Standard:

Students recognize body systems in animals.

Punctuation

Collect news pictures from your newspaper that represent a question mark (?) an exclamation point (!) or a period (.). Make a Picture Punctuation booklet. Write an original sentence for each picture of the booklet. ? .

Subject:

Writing

Grade:

1st 2nd 3rd 4th

Skill or Strand:

Writing Strategies

Standard:

Students select and maintain a focus when writing; group together related ideas and maintain a focus.

Opinionated

Study the Letters to the Editor section on the editorial page of the newspaper. Each letter tells how the person who wrote it feels about a certain subject. Find a letter to which you would like to respond. Your comments may support or oppose the letter you choose. When you write your answer remember to state clearly why you feel as you do. Start an Opinionated column for your classroom or school newspaper. Invite your classmates to write letters of opinion in response to the editorial page.

Subject:

Writing

Grade:

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

Skill or Strand:

Strategies

Standard:

Students select a focus when writing.

Reliable Sources

When you read a newspaper or a magazine you will often find references to a reliable source. That means a reporter got his or her information from someone who did not want to be identified. Find an example of a reliable source in a news story. How do you feel about the story? Find other stories where sources are named. Is one source more believable than another? Why or why not?

Subject:

Newspaper

Grade:

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

Skill or Strand:

Analysis of Text

Standard:

Students determine the adequacy and appropriateness of an author's evidence or conclusions.