This guide examines today's environmental issues. It challenges students to seek answers and discover ways to heal our environment using problem-solving strategies, analysis, critical thinking skills and the daily newspaper. This guide provides teachers with activity ideas to focus on candidates, issues, resources and the election process using the newspaper. This publication provides simple activities in a variety of curriculum areas so that the youngest of a school population can participate and learn about the elections through the newspaper. This teaching guide addresses most mandated competencies and educational objectives.
Lessons focus on fundamental skill development in four major subject areas.
This source gives students a taste of basic geography and the importance of geographic literacy in their daily lives. The activities provided use all sections of the newspaper as a resource for the study of local, national and world geography. This guide focuses on editorial writing and the persuasive role of the newspaper. Students identify writers' points of view, and their arguments before they practice them. It also supplies needed background for educators in ad design and editorial writing.