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Health Smart Virginia

Surviving High School Awareness Campaign

For Students 8th - 10th
To demonstrate what they have learned in the Health Smart unit, sophomores design a resource for incoming ninth-graders that includes what they consider the most important information they gleaned from one of the eight topics studied. 
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Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Analyzing the Sales Process

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Make the sale! Using the informational resource, scholars learn how to analyze the sales process to maximize profits. They design a poster depicting Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, and then combine forces to create a PowerPoint presentation...
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Newseum

Civil Rights: Chronicling the Movement

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Scholars investigate events in the civil rights era in their community and develop a multimedia presentation of their findings. They compare local events with national events discussed on a NewseumED timeline.
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Newseum

Civil Rights News Coverage: Looking Back at Bias

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Not all southern newspapers covered the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Young journalists investigate how The Lexington (Ky. Herald-Leader and The Jackson (Tenn.) Sun re-examined their coverage of the movement. After...
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Simon & Schuster

Curriculum Guide to: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
A Tale of Two Cities is the core text for five lessons in a Curriculum Guide for Charles Dickens' famous novel. To begin, scholars examine Dickens' use of anaphora in the first line of the novel. Next, they compare the point of view in a...
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Overcoming Obstacles

Setting Priorities

For Teachers 9th - 12th
One step at a time! High schoolers learn how to set priorities by creating a list of tasks they must complete that week, adding the consequences of not completing each task, and identifying the conflicts that will arise. They then...
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Overcoming Obstacles

Understanding Conflicts

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The Resolving Conflicts module begins with a instructional activity about tolerance and learning to appreciate differences among people. Through a series of activities and games, middle schoolers learn that conflicts arise when people...
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Organizer
Curated OER

Language Arts Curriculum Guide

For Students 2nd - 4th
For this language arts worksheet, students complete many worksheets that include brainstorming, newspaper article reviews, TV show descriptions, and more. Students complete 54 worksheets total.
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Curated OER

Nazi Germany Through An Examination of the Holocaust

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders read, analyze, evaluate, synthesize and present their ideas through multi-media about events of the Holocaust and Nazi Germany.
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Curated OER

Catchy Captions

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners write captions for pictures cut out from newspapers and match the actual captions to the pictures.
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Curated OER

War in the News

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners consider the portrayal of war in the news. In this lesson plan on Journalistic perspectives, students will work in groups to critically examine news articles written during war times throughout history.
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Curated OER

Understanding the News

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students work in small groups to identify the following categories of news articles: hard news, features, announcements, and opinion/personal reflection.
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Curated OER

Documenting a Historic Climb of Mount Everest

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students create front pages of newspapers that document the historic attempt of a group of Sherpa women to summit Mount Everest.
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Curated OER

If Hornets Could Talk

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders create a school newspaper. In this journalism lesson plan students write articles for a school newspaper. They also create an informational website. the projects are both on-going.
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Curated OER

Making News

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore the news media. In this social studies lesson, students discuss what the definition of news is. Students write a newspaper article about positive activity that students at their school are involved in.
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Writing
Curated OER

Islam - Hajj and Eid-ul-Adha, Hajj Script Guidesheet

For Students 7th - 10th
In this script guide sheet, students imagine, plan, and write a transcript of an interview with a Muslim family for a imaginary television show. The content of the transcript interview illustrates the student's knowledge of the Islamic...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Help Wanted

For Students 6th
In this factual text worksheet, 6th graders read through several want ads and then answer the detailed questions that follow to check their reading comprehension skills.
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Curated OER

Front Page News

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students compare and contrast front-page stories from two local or state newspapers.
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Curated OER

Abbreviations and Acronyms in Newspapers

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students investigate the purpose and meaning of common abbreviations and acronyms by examining them in newspapers.
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Curated OER

Extra, Extra, Write All About It!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine photographs from newspapers and write a headline and story to accompany one.
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Curated OER

Our Endangered Resources: The Trees

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss the importance of trees, and characteristics of trees. They imagine themselves with their favorite tree. And discuss their imagery; the different trees, time of day, and location of trees. Student write a short story...
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Curated OER

ESL News Press

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students assume the roles of editors and news reporters and develop and create a school newspaper. Working in groups they brainstorm article topics for different sections of the paper. They conduct research about current events,...
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Curated OER

Extra, Extra Write All About It!

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students examine photographs from newspapers and write a headline and story for one of the examples. In this news writing lesson, students analyze a photograph as a class and discuss it. Students analyze photographs and example headlines...
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Organizer
Curated OER

The Battle of Somme

For Students 7th - 10th
For this newspaper template worksheet, students create news stories that might have been on the front page of a newspaper following the World War I Battle of Somme.

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