Materials 1998 Education Development Center, Inc. . There are a great number of news sites now available on the Web. Many print, radio, and television news sources now have sites on the Web as well.
Many sites offer links to related resources or suggested activities for the classroom as well.
Compare news from different sources and assess any biases. Collect headlines or graphics from different news sources and discuss which ones are most effective at grabbing the reader's attention and why. Analyze the reporting of the same issues in various regions of the world to compare perspectives. Discuss what aspects of online news reports make them different from print sources. There are many organizations which have catalogued original primary source documents relating to historical issues on the Web.