Lesson Library

Search Results

Your search returned 1066 matches. Up to ten matches are displayed per page. If there are too many results you may want to refine your search.

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107

Be a Detective

Have your class go on an investigation through the newspaper. Here's a list of items students have to find: a telephone number, an address, an amount over $100, a number in words, a temperature, a silent letter, a code of some kind.

Subject:

Reading

Grade:

3rd, 4th, 5th

Skill or Strand:

Research

Standard:

Use reading skills and strategies to understand informational text.

Memory Book

Choose a certain day and date. Have your students create a book to be a special memory of that day. Use the newspaper to find features, ads, movies, products and names that will provide specific memories of that day in history.

Subject:

History

Grade:

5th, 6th, 7th, 8th

Skill or Strand:

Research

Standard:

Use primary resources to learn about the past.

Summer Energy

Let students look through the newspaper to find things that need electricity to work. For each example they find, discuss ways the same work could be accomplished without using electricity. List the alternative forms of energy.

Subject:

Physical Science

Grade:

4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th

Skill or Strand:

Energy

Standard:

Understand the sources and properties of energy.

Smells

Look through the newspaper for pictures of three things that give off a smell. Cut them out and glue them onto a piece of paper, and label them smelly, smellier and smelliest.

Subject:

Writing Conventions

Grade:

3rd, 4th, 5th

Skill or Strand:

Grammar

Standard:

Understand regular and irregular comparative adjectives.

Map of My Town

You can draw your own, print one from the Internet or copy one from a map book. Use the newspaper to remind yourself of places you would like to feature on your map, like your school, a playground, ice cream store or movie theater. Highlight your favorite places.

Subject:

Geography

Grade:

3rd, 4th, 5th

Skill or Strand:

Maps

Standard:

Know the basic elements of maps.

Elements

Help your students understand the elements. Using the periodic table, take a red marker and make the appropriate chemical symbols on articles, ads, pictures or anything else in the newspaper that mentions an element.

Subject:

Physical Science

Grade:

8th,9th, 10th,11th, 12th

Skill or Strand:

Periodic Table

Standard:

Understand the design and use of the periodic table.

Wind Power

Have students look through the newspaper for articles dealing with wind power as an alternative source of energy. What makes this an attractive energy source? Make a chart showing on one side the benefits of this source of energy and on the other side, the shortcomings of this energy source.

Subject:

Physical Science

Grade:

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

Skill or Strand:

Energy

Standard:

Knows the sun is the source of all energy on earth; knows the major internal and external sources of energy.

Animals in Art

Split your class into groups. Have each group create a different animal collage with pictures from the newspaper. Select different animals topics such as Pets, Farm Animals, Wild Animals, Sea creatures, Tame Animals, Mammals.

Subject:

Visual Arts

Grade:

K,1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th

Skill or Strand:

Media

Standard:

Knows how different media communicate ideas, experiences, and stories.

Calendar of Events

Make a calendar of three months of the year that include the events gong on in your town. First draw your calendar and then look for newspaper listings to provide scheduling information. Look for ads of special events and shows to glue onto your calendar. Make a time line of events you would like to attend.

Subject:

Measurement

Grade:

2nd, 3rd, 4th

Skill or Strand:

Time

Standard:

Understand calendar time in days, weeks and months.

Subject:

Grade:

Skill or Strand:

Standard: