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Current Events

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Here is an ongoing activity intended to build interest in local, national, and world news. The class is divided into four groups of approximately five students each. The groups are responsible for monitoring the daily news. They compose...
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Are We Scaring Ourselves to Death?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Interesting! Have your high schoolers watch this 13-minute clip from the documentay, "Are We Scaring Ourselves to Death?" It examines the fear we have as a culture about death and whether or not the media increases those fears. The focus...
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Cartoons for the Classroom: The Future of Newspapers

For Students 9th - 12th
Are newspapers dying, or fighting to survive? Give your scholars access to this controversial debate using political cartoons. In this analsyis handout, 2 cartoons display the changing role of newspapers in a world of online media....
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News Quiz | April 15, 2011

For Students 9th - 10th
Five multiple choice questions are in need of answers, but first your class needs to read the day's paper. They read the New York Times published on April 15, 2011 to find the answers to each of the five questions.
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Current Event Project

For Teachers 4th - 12th Standards
One of the best ways to make history relevant and engaging is to analyze current events before they become history! Check out these project guidelines for a current event research paper, outlining the major required sections of...
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News Coverage WWII

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore how Americans were affected by news coverage of World War II.
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Panther Prime Time Morning News Show

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners write, direct, produce and star in a morning news show to be aired live to the student body three days a week. Fourth graders are the show's anchors amd fifth graders man the production equipment.
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I Have a New Baby News Report!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
For this baby news report worksheet, students write a newspaper style report about the baby's name, weight, what it does, and explain how they felt when they met the new baby.
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Mixed Media Ocean Art

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students design pictures of ocean environments. In this art lesson, students use mixed media art materials to develop a picture that depicts the ocean environment. They use paint, sand paper and various basic art materials.
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Vanishing Verbs

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students analyze recent media trends, and develop critical thinking skills by summarizing main ideas, extracting details, formulating opinions, drawing inferences, and comparing and contrasting attitudes. They also practice paraphrasing...
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Arson

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students watch a documentary film about arson and why children sometimes commit arson. They role play a scenario in which the school was deliberately set on fire. They develop a news report in which they interview three people regarding...
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That's News to Me!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read about the Newseum and create their own museum exploring various aspects of news media.
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Combing Through the News

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use the Sean 'Puffy' Combs trial to compare how and why various media cover a news story differently.
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We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution: The American Revolution

For Teachers 5th - 8th
The contributions of African-Americans to the American Revolution are the focus of this Social Studies and language arts instructional activity. After reading and discussing Linda Crotta Brennan’s The Black Regiment of the American...
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Team Up for Sports Marketing

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Learners choose a sport and promote a real or imaginary team by creating press releases, business cards, and ads or commercials.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Vanishing Newspapers

For Students 8th - 12th
What is happening to our newspapers? In the context of the current trends of media and the ever-declining print news industry, this handout includes two political cartoons for pupils to analyze, both created by artists working for...
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Comic Book Characters

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Explore gender stereotypes by analyzing how male and female characters are depicted in comic books. Using the provided Comic Book Analysis sheet, students record the attributes of male and female comic book characters. Then the whole...
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Cruise the News

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students utilize newspapers as a resource to complete various tasks. They read articles, write summaries, investigate the classified section, write commercials, and circle spelling words.
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Press Release

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders write and publish a press release. In this news writing lesson plan, 7th graders analyze press releases from various online sources. Students write a press release about a major event in their school.
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Discussion: The Media

For Teachers 5th - 7th
In this discussion about media worksheet, pupils participate in a discussion about different types of media.
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The Media

For Students 7th - 9th
In this media vocabulary worksheet, students choose the word that does not belong in each group of words associated with media.
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Current Events

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research current events and simulate a newscast of a current news story. They watch the evening news and write a summary of a story of interest, conduct Internet research and complete a worksheet on a current event, and...
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Supplementary Angles

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students develop an understanding of the journalistic concept of the "news angle," by examining the newspaper coverage of an airplane disaster.
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Ticker Text Parade

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine news headlines and create very brief news pieces in the style of news tickers. They write papers reflecting upon these experiences and on the value of concisely written news reports.