Participating NIE teachers: To download any of the curriculum and activity guides listed below, simply click on the guide name.
101 Ways to Use the Mini Page [1]
- Both the newspaper and The Mini Page easily accommodate individual or
group activities and can be used to support and enrich day-to-day
curriculum in creative ways. Subjects addressed include nutrition,
math, reading comprehension, vocabulary and words, writing, grammar,
punctuation, categorizing, shapes, artwork and sports.
All Together Now [2]
– Living and Learning in a Multicultural Society - This is the NAA
Teacher guide for National NIE Week 2005. We all come from different
cultures and backgrounds. We benefit in personal, social and
educational ways when we learn from the cultures of others. This
teacher’s guide looks at the role the newspaper can play in developing
children’s literacy skills in a multicultural society. The activities
are based on accepted education theories about the way children learn
and the resources children bring to the learning setting.
Be Healthy, Be Fit –
New Ideas for a New School Year – Your Bangor Daily News can play a key
role in health education. This teacher’s guide is designed to give
teachers direction and guidance for using the newspaper to teach and
reach students on issues of health and fitness. The activities in this
guide are designed to meet National Standards adopted by government and
education leaders to improve children’s ability and understanding of
these issues.
By the Numbers [3]
– Mathematical Connections in Newspapers for Middle-Grade Students –
Your Bangor Daily News is of tremendous value in bringing the real
world of authentic data into the classroom. Consider how numbers are
integrally involved in daily life. We cook, travel, work, shop and move
from place to place. Numbers can be incorporated into every activity.
Because the newspaper chronicles daily life, it is the perfect resource
for teaching mathematical concepts through relevant text. This guide,
packed with 47 pages of lesson plans, will show you how! (Lesson plans
follow learning standards from the National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics.)
Celebrate Diversity! [4]-
This guide helps students learn to think globally and act locally by
understanding, accepting and valuing differences as well as celebrating
diversity in schools and communities. Six areas of diversity are
highlighted: race, gender, language, ethnicity, religion and
disabilities. The suggested activities are concentrated in three areas
of thinking: awareness of the history and nature of prejudice,
understanding how to value difference and applying knowledge to
celebrate diversity.
Geography in the Newspaper [5]-
Creating a Lifetime of Geographic Education Through a Lifetime of
Newspaper Reading (6-12) The lessons in this curriculum guide stimulate
students to think geographically about world events as they are
occurring. Each lesson incorporates critical thinking skills by
inviting the student to question, to probe, to analyze and to look for
relationships. The lessons focus on the "learner outcomes" for
secondary students from the Guidelines for Geographic Education,
published by the Joint Committee on Geographic Education. These relate
to the five themes basic to the study of geography: location, place,
relationships, movement and regions. (Social Studies, Interdisciplinary)
Give Them the Keys [6]–
Promoting Adolescent Literacy Through Newspapers A beneficial resource
for all students, the newspaper provides a variety of writing styles
and text patterns that relate to the material encountered in content
classes. News stories and columns about government, scientific
advances, technology, public affairs and international relations can be
connected directly to subjects students are learning in their
classrooms. The newspaper validates the curriculum of the school, and
ads and articles about consumer goods, services and issues provide
information students can use on a daily basis to make decisions. This
guide is designed to help teachers use the newspaper effectively in
their classrooms. Take advantage of numerous lessons accompanied by
reproducible student activity pages.
In My Opinion [7] -
The Newspaper and Persuasive Writing (4-12) - This guide provides
background lessons and activities teachers can use to help students
write editorials. A process research and writing approach is
emphasized.
It’s NIE for K-3 [8]
- Designed to help primary teachers bridge the gap between the
newspaper and beginning readers, this publication includes 60 full-page
activities in language arts, writing, science/health, math, news
knowledge and social studies as well as 16 activity cards to use both
at school and at home.
Keep It Real [9] –
Newspapers, the Ultimate Informational Text - Informational text and
nonfiction are enjoying renewed interest and attention from the world
of education. National and state standards place a high priority on
students being able to read, write and think about informational
materials. Your Bangor Daily News is the ultimate informational text!
It is a logical resource for information about the natural, social and
political world. This teacher’s guide provides educators with specific
activities to help students develop and extend their ability to
comprehend informational text structures and organization.
Mastering the Message [10] -
This guide contains detailed activities that lend themselves to
performance assessment. Lessons revolve around constructing the news,
news and politics and the role of public relations. Each activity is
followed by a set of evaluation criteria, or rubrics, for the activity.
The activities are organized into elementary, middle school and
secondary sections. Background information is provided for teachers on
developing performance assessment activities and establishing rubrics.
Measuring Up in Mathematics [11]
- (meets NCTM standards) Choose Elem. (K-8) or Secondary (9-12) As the
class of 2000 completed the first grade (in 1989), the National Council
of Teachers of Math (NCTM) took assertive steps toward preparing these
students for the unpredictable future by introducing Standards for
School Mathematics to encourage teachers to adopt effective
instructional practices that make math learning more relevant and
transferable. This guide provides the teacher with activities that meet
the objectives of the Standards. Each section of the guide corresponds
to one of the key instructional areas. (Math, Interdisciplinary)
Messages & Meaning [12]
- A Guide to Understanding Media (K-12) With the focus on media
literacy, this guide presents activities to help students evaluate and
become more informed consumers of print and electronic media messages.
Specific lessons show students how to access, analyze, evaluate and
produce media messages.
Newspapers - Touching the Kaleidoscope of Your Mind [13](Howard
Gardner) - The activities in this guide are based on the work of
Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner, who identified the multiple
"intelligences." The main section contains activities for students in
grades K to 6. The ideas at the beginning of each section are for
primary students. The second section at the end of the guide contains
activities designed for secondary students.
Newspapers Maintain the Brain [14]-
A Teacher’s Guide for Using the Newspaper to Enhance Basic Skills -
This guide provides you with a multitude of activities and helps you to
utilize the newspaper to enhance skills in reading, writing, listening,
speaking, math, social studies, science and critical thinking. (Grades
K-12)
Press Ahead [15] - This guide is both a teaching tool and a planning guide for creating a student newspaper.
Special Education and Cooperative Learning
- Using the Newspaper as a Primary Source (K-12) Students defined as
those with "special needs" are less likely to be motivated by
conventional methods. The exercises in this 88-page curriculum guide
promote the use of the newspaper with cooperative learning. (Language
Arts, Social Studies, Math, Health, Life Skills)
Survival Skills for the Student at Risk [16] (6-12)
- This guide focuses on expanded learning opportunities for the
potential secondary school dropout. The guide is filled with creative
lessons integrating subject areas to motivate those students who have
high interest levels (non-academic) and low reading levels.
(Self-Awareness, Social Studies, Language Arts, Math, Science, Life
Skills)
Talking about Freedom [17]
- A Teacher’s Guide to the First Amendment - The "Talking about
Freedom" campaign was based on a series of eight educational print ads
for teens. Dealing with issues ranging from dress codes to censorship
of school newspapers and from school prayer to parental warning labels
on records and CDs, the ads examine the complexity of the competing
interests that the First Amendment helps us balance. The guide includes
classroom handouts, teaching ideas, discussion questions and suggested
activities.
Teacher Reproducibles [18]
- This guide provides reproducible worksheets with activities for
language arts, mathematics, science and technology and social studies.
The Essential Question [19]
– Student-Developed Questions Using the Newspaper The complexity of our
world is increasing rapidly with the rise of technology. We have access
to much more information than any other generation. For this reason it
is important not to only ask the right questions but also to ask them
in a logical sequence. Without a sequential questioning strategy,
students often flounder, go off track and overlook essential
information. This guide, written by Dr. Darla Shaw and published by the
Newspaper in Education Institute, provides numerous activities to build
critical questioning skills through newspaper and Internet usage.
Weather Page [20]-
Understanding How Weather Happens (5-9) From basic physics and
geography to explaining barometric pressure and air patterns that
affect storms, this guide teaches the hows and whys of weather. The
easy-to-understand lessons, activity sheets, experiments, and
illustrations teach about the familiar (temperature, humidity, clouds,
precipitation) and more abstract (fronts, storms, jet streams) weather
phenomena. Each chapter contains many surprising weather facts!
Students will learn to access today’s unprecedented amount of weather
information using the daily newspaper. (Earth Science, Geography,
Interdisciplinary)
Your Community’s Town Hall [21]
The Ultimate Newspaper Activity Guide [22]