Of course, once you have spent some time with the newspaper in your
classroom, we're sure you'll develop your own great ideas. As you find
activities that get your students excited, be sure to share them with other
local teachers. You can e-mail them to us at
nie@cmonitor.com, or post them in the Faculty Lounge.
Lesson plans and teaching activities
Newspaper activities for teaching K-4
These learning activities will give you lots of ideas for making the most of
the newspaper in your elementary classroom. The activities are updated weekly.
Newspaper
activities for teaching 5-8
These learning activities will give you lots of ideas for making the most of
the newspaper in your middle school classroom. The activities are updated weekly.
Newspaper activities for teaching 9-12
These learning activities will give you lots of ideas for making the most of
the newspaper in your high school classroom. The activities are updated weekly.
Timeless ideas
This long list of ideas will help you get started on finding fun and creative
ways to use the newspaper in your classroom.
Greek Newspaper Project
A lesson plan with printable handouts that guides students in making a
newspaper about ancient Greece.
It's
News to Me
Students can use the internet to create their own newspaper. After reviewing the
online paper students can then create their own.
Grade Level: Primary
Make Your
Classroom Newspaper
Seem complicated? Not with this lesson which gives you easy to follow
directions to make this activity a success.
Middle school
Newspaper Icosahedron
Directions for constructing a gigantic Icosahedron using newspaper in your
classroom.
Organization of a Newspaper and the Parts of a News Article
Students learn about the newspaper as they practice summarizing fairy tales.
Grade Level: 3,4,5,6,7,8
Stop
Press! Newspaper Headlines
Students will be expected to read a newspaper article with the title removed
and write an appropriate one for it.
Twenty-Five Great Ideas for Teaching about Current Events
A collection of intercurricular activity ideas related to current events.
Students practice listening skills, map locations of events, and locate
adjectives in new articles.
AskERIC Lesson Plans in Journalism
Lessons on interviewing (questioning skills) and making a class newspaper.
Grade Level: 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Daily Lesson Plan
Get a new current event article and lesson plan every day from The New York
Times.
Newspaper Nouns
Working as a team, students use the newspaper to find different types of
nouns, which they group and label.
Grade Level: Middle school
Teaching Science Using the Newspaper
Here are 20 ideas for intermediate+ students.
The Write Site
The Write Site is an interactive language arts and journalism project for
middle school students and teachers.
Grade Level: 6,7,8
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Student newspaper resources
Highwired National Edition
Highwired National Edition is a news site that showcases the writing of
high-school journalists nationwide and around the world. The site also offers
space for schools to publish school newspapers on-line and create special Web
sites for extracurricular activity groups, clubs, and individual classrooms to
publish student writing on the Web!
Grade Level: 7,8,9,10,11,12
Kidnews.com
Kidnews.com offers students opportunities to publish their writing on the Web.
The site is dedicated to providing a free, safe environment for wordsmiths --
students and teachers. Every submission is edited and reviewed before posting.
Grade Level: 3,4,5,6,7,8
High School News and Graphics
High School News and Graphics has four main information categories: In
Brief, College Headlines, Student Opinions, and Sports. School Newspapers can
download comics and editorial cartoons. Updated weekly.
Grade Level: 9,10,11,12
Campus Weblines
Campus Weblines, published as part of the New York Times Learning Network,
offers teachers and students the information and tools they need to publish
online school newspapers.
Grade Level: 9,10,11,12
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Journalism and newspaper resources
Journalism 101
Developed by the Dayton Daily News, these pages offer a brief synopsis of US
journalism history, ethics, design, writing, photography and interviewing.
The ASNE High School
Journalism Project
Presented by the American Society of Newspaper Editors, this site offers
resources for students, teachers and editors of high school newspapers, as well
as lesson plans and articles that will help you teach the principles and
practice of journalism to high school students.
Columbia Journalism Review
A trade publication for working journalists, CJR offers insight into the
ethical and practical issues reporters and editors face.
Cyber Newseum
Journalism teachers and students as well as anyone interested in the news can
use this site to learn how the media has covered certain historic and current
events. The Cyber Newseum also showcases award-winning photojournalism and
editorial cartoons.
Grade Level: 6,7,8,9,10,11,12
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Additional useful teaching links
EcEdWeb
The EcEdWeb site provides resources for teaching economics in classrooms
from kindergarten to college. Included are lesson plans, a list of important
concepts for students to learn by grade levels, and a comprehensive list of
links to outside resources.
Grade Level: K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
A Guided Tour of the
Visible Human
Get up close and personal with an inside look at the anatomy of the human
body. This tour will give students or interested adults the opportunity to find
details about any organ in the human body. The images have been annotated and
interactively linked so users may click on each organ to learn more.
Grade Level: 9,10,11,12
History Buff's
This is one hot-off-the-press American History site! History Buff's is an
awesome archive of media coverage of American historic events and includes an
extensive, searchable library of both newspapers and sound clips.
Grade Level: 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
HistoryWired
HistoryWired offers a virtual tour of a large collection of objects from the
Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
Grade Level: 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Infoplease.com KIDS' ALMANAC
At this information-rich site, kids can get help on their homework
assignments by visiting the Homework Center or Homework Helper. They'll find
useful tips on frequently assigned topics or may submit questions to an
Infoplease editor. Answers are posted back to the site. Subjects are sorted by
category to make finding information easy.
Grade Level: 4,5,6,7,8,9,11,12
The ABCs of the
Writing Process
Are you looking for tips and suggestions for teaching the writing process?
This site provides an overview of each stage of the process. Users will find
sources of inspiration, tips, and links to printable graphic organizers and
prewriting strategies in the Prewriting section. The Writing section includes
tips for writing a rough draft and moving from the prewriting stage to writing.
Methods and tips for revising, an editing checklist, publishing tips and
suggestions, and annotated links to curricular resources are included.
Grade Level: K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Communication Skills Writing
Program
This is an excellent writing resource for students and teachers. The
Students' Resources section is filled with information on plagiarism, use of
quotations, and the style for citing resources.
Grade Level: 9,10,11,12
Math in Daily Life
This site explores important mathematical concepts as they apply to everyday
life. It is a part of the Annenberg/CPB Project Exhibits Collection. It gives
students a reason to learn about probability, exponential growth, and ratios in
a practical way that will make sense to them. Whether they choose to buy or
lease a car, redecorate a house, save for retirement, cook up a gourmet meal, or
place their bets, math will affect the decisions they make.
Grade Level: 9,10,11,12
World Almanac for Kids
Online
This is the companion site to the print version of The World Almanac for
Kids. It is a rich resource for elementary students looking for information on
animals, environment, inventions, nations, presidents, religion, and more.
Grade Level: K,1,2,3,4,5,6
