The activities focus on current events at the local, state, national and international levels. Social studies teachers will find it useful in making classroom study relevant to today's issues and concerns. This guide is a terrific way to link this important topic to today's news and information. The activity pages focus on different subjects such as government, music, science, etc., and highlight outstanding black individuals in each field. These exercises take elementary students through the calendar year using the newspaper to look into many familiar and new special days.
Activities focus on a variety of subject areas.
This curriculum guide explores character through the newspaper by helping students develop definitions and real-life examples of character traits such as honesty, loyalty, tolerance, respect, perseverance and fairness, etc. This guide focuses on citizenship. It contains 20 lessons covering topics such as analyzing news, the role of a free press, consumer rights and responsibilities, how laws affect people and community problems and resources. This guide was created to celebrate the 200th birthday of the Bill of Rights. These activities are presented at three levels of difficulty and are based on citizens' rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.