Curriculum & Activities

The ultimate newspaper activity guide

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Weather Page

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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

The Essential Question – Student-Developed Questions Using the Newspaper

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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.

Teacher reproducibles

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This guide provides reproducible worksheets with
activities for language arts, mathematics, science and technology and
social studies.

Talking about freedom: A teachers guide to the First Amendment

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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.

Survival skills for the student at risk

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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)

Press Ahead

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This guide is both a teaching tool and a planning guide
for creating a student newspaper.

Newspapers maintain the brain

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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)

Newspapers - Touching the Kaleidoscope of Your Mind

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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.

Messages & Meaning

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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.