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Teacher Instructional Resources Index

These resources are made available to teachers by your participating Newspaper in Education (NIE) program, in partnership with the non-profit Newspaper in Education Institute. Click on a resource and it will open or you may access resources from the Instructional Resources folder on this CD.

Resources including many high quality teacher guides, serial stories, student supplements, streaming video and audio, Project: Solution character education supplements, numerous subject-specific resources, and the extremely popular NIE Instructional Calendar.

These resources address the goals of No Child Left Behind and the research- and standards-based curriculum focus of schools and teachers. There are curriculum materials for every subject area. Resources are listed below with brief descriptions.
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Diversity & Multicultural Literacy
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Financial Literacy Supplements
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First Amendment
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General Educational Development
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Health & Obesity
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Homeland Security, Crime, Drugs
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Journalism & Press Freedom
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Media Literacy
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Multiple Intelligences
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Language Arts & Literacy Resources

The Essential Question: A Key Element in Critical Thinking and Comprehension
Written by Dr. Darla Shaw. Student developed questions are at the heart of today’s education. Asking the correct question and then going after possible answers is what resourceful, independent learning is all about. If you ask the “right question(s)” you are on the path to finding out about what you really need to know to solve a problem.

Linking Language Arts Standards to the Newspaper, By Dr. Darla Shaw 
By using newspaper articles and photos in conjunction with specific strategies and rubrics, at least once a week, teachers can help their students comply with state educational standards and prepare for both standardized tests and real life circumstances.

Newspapers, The Ultimate Informational Text
Provided by the NAA Foundation. National and state standards place a high priority on students being able to read, write and think about informational text. Many state assessments include high percentages of informational text. Standards require students to ask questions, locate information to answers and evaluate sources of information. This guide will help teachers use the newspaper to teach students these standards.

Now I Get It
This NAA guide provides a variety of lessons and activities to help students develop their comprehension skills. It also includes information about current comprehension skills researchand national standards for reading comprehension. The material is appropriate for students in both middle school and high school. Special activities are included for elementary students.

Reading First: Research-Based Reading Instruction Using the Newspaper
Based on the US Dept. of Education’s Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read, a report on successful research-based reading instruction, this guide focuses on phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension skills using the newspaper.

Reading First, NIE!
(NAA) Another research-based curriculum guide for teachers and NIE coordinators that also provides ideas for parents to use at home as well as information about national trends in reading instruction. The newspaper-based activities suggested are meant to supplement and enrich each of the five elements recommended by the National Reading Panel.

Thoughtful Literacy Using the Newspaper
This cutting edge guide was written by Dr. Darla Shaw. It is based on the work of Drs. Richard Allington and Peter Johnston, leaders of the Center for English Learning and Achievement/University of Albany (CELA) research team that is studying effective classrooms. In examining teacher practice, they’ve identified a set of core teaching characteristics that tend to foster thoughtful literacy and the ability to analyze, synthesize and evaluate information effectively:
Managed choice, Multi-source curriculum, Multi-task learning, & Meaningful classroom discussion.

Using Lyrics to Enrich the English, Reading, and Social Studies Curriculum
By Dr. Darla Shaw and the NIE Institute 
This guide has been developed so that any teacher, with or without a musical background, can assist students in lyric writing.  Several mini lessons provide an overview with lyric formats and graphic organizers provided for students to help them prepare their original lyrical pieces.

Adolescent Literacy Through the Newspaper - Literacy, Multicultural Education, and Multiple Intelligence Theory
This NAA guide provides 10 core activities that deal with culture, which help students to examine themselves in the context of their cultural background. After each of the core activities, the guide provide related activities, some to extend the lesson and others based on the multiple intelligence theory, allowing students to spend time working from their gifts and talents.

Adolescent Literacy Through the Newspaper - Give Them the Keys
(grades 6-12): This NAA guide is designed to help teachers use the newspaper effectively in their classrooms. There are 10 lessons accompanied by reproducible student activity pages.

Poetry and Rhyming Worksheets
Nine Poetry/Rhyming Worksheets with these poetry-writing styles: Acrostic (2), Ballad, Cinquain, Clerihew, Haiku, Rhyme, Rhythm, and Riddles.

Quickie Lessons
A variety of short, quick language arts lesson activities.

Read All About It
Newspaper-based activities designed to develop the reading fluency skills of elementary school students.

See Clearly… Read!
(preK-grade 12) This literacy guide presented in partnership with the Newspaper Association of America and the Verizon Foundation provides lessons that can be used in the classroom but are written for parents for using the newspaper at home to promote literacy. There are lesson pages for each level, preK, elementary, middle and high school.

Using the Newspaper to Teach Standards in Middle School English
This guide provides lesson plans correlated to most Middle School English curriculum standards.

Using the Newspaper to Teach Secondary Language Arts
Over two dozen worksheets and numerous short lesson activities to help secondary students establish a good foundation in Language Arts and learn to apply learning in writing, literature and speech.

Writer to Reader
The following components are included in this teaching guide:
1) How to incorporate activities into a Writer’s Workshop program or into traditional programs. 2) Educational standards related to reading and writing are identified for individual activities in the guide. 3) Detailed lesson plans and student activity sheets for 10 writing topics. 4) Mini-Lessons showing teachers how to use newspaper elements as a model for writing instruction. 5) Writer’s Organizer pages provide activity sheets students use to plan, draft and revise their writing. Ideas are offered for using newspapers to generate alternative and authentic writing products.

Science, Math & Environmental Resources

By The Numbers: Math Connections in Newspapers
This new NAA Foundation guide offers practical classroom math applications using the newspaper.

Secondary Science
Secondary Science offers hundreds of science activities. Based on a report funded by the National Science Foundation, the guide focuses on the reports primary objectives for science education to address: personal needs, societal issues, academic preparation, and career education and awareness.

Environmental Awareness (grades 4-12)
This EGBAR Foundation Environmental Awareness Curriculum is designed to educate children with the use of the newspaper. Most of the lessons included in the curriculum involve cut and paste activities. This design allowed the curriculum to virtually never become outdated due to the current topics offered by the newspaper.  

Visit the EGBAR Foundation web site at: http://www.egbar.org

Math Quickie Lessons
A variety of short, quick lesson activities.

Math Scavenger Hunt
A short clip and paste activity finding math elements in the newspaper.

Science & Geography Ideas
A page of activities that incorporate science and geography concepts.

Science Quickie Lessons
A variety of short, quick lesson activities.

Social Studies, Government, Civics

Secondary Social Studies
This teacher guide offers 50 lesson activity sheets and hundreds of short lesson activities on history, government, economics, geography, conflict resolution, and taking civic action.

Social Studies and the News
(Craig Lancto) 160 activities exploring the use of newspapers as primary sources including charts, graphs, and visuals to gain information; distinguishing between fact and fiction; recognizing bias and stereotyping; the foundations of Constitutional government; participation of individuals in civic life; the functions of political parties; evaluating the impact of media on public opinion; state and federal government; separation of powers; and economic concepts.

Using the Newspaper to Teach Curriculum Standards for the Social Studies
Offers newspaper lesson activities based on the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
ten thematic cirriculum standards and addresses the student performance expectations that form the framework for excellence in teaching scial studies.

We The People - Unit 1 Tabloid Supplement / Unit 2 Letter-size
These two units of the Center for Civic Education’s (CCE) popular We The People curriculum can help schools meet the new Federal requirement that every school study the Constitution on Constitution Day each year. Also try the Constitution Scavenger Hunt.

Celebrating Flight
Written by NASA, this supplement chronicles the history of flight from unmanned balloons through the Wright Brothers historic first powered flight to man’s exploration of outer space.

Challenges and Choices 
Activities in this guide have been designed to give students practice in identifying issues, posing solutions and developing problem-solving skills they will need to face real world challenges.

Citizens Together
This guide is designed for five days of instruction using the newspaper to help students explore individual freedoms protected by the Bill of Rights.

Editorial Cartoons
Editorial cartoons use humor and satire to show a position about current issues.  Editorial cartoons constitute both an unusual art form and a commentary on society.  Because they express opinions on public issues, editorial cartoons are useful teaching aids for examining historic and contemporary issues and events.

Geography with the Daily Newspaper
A page of geography activities using the newspaper.

Global Connections: Geography Learning About the U.S. & the World
Provides nearly 80 lesson activities correlated to the National Geography Standards.

O Canada! The True North Strong and Free!
Students will learn about our neighbor to the north, Canada.  This supplement provides information on Canadian history, parliamentary government, geography, economy/trade, culture, famous Canadian’s and other topics.

People and Parliament
This teacher guide with student activity pages will help familiarize students in grades 4 to 12 with the Canadian parliamentary system while applying standards-based skills and concepts.  It is recommended for use with the O Canada supplement and with Canadian newspaper web sites at:
http://www.cna-acj.ca/client/cna/cna.nsf/web/online  

Preserving America's Heritage
Create in partnership with Advisory Council for Historic Preservation, this supplement explains how historic preservation developed with interesting stories from the Pre-Columbian era to the present. Preserving America's Heritage Companion Piece

Social Studies Quickie Lessons
A variety of short, quick lesson activities.

The Civil War
This supplement will help students compare and contrast the conflicting issues between the Union and Confederate states.  They will learn what military camp life was like and also about the wide variety of ethnic backgrounds of soldiers that fought on both sides of the war.  They will learn about the Battle of Gettysburg, the most important battle of the Civil War.

Your Newspaper, Your Town Hall
This guide published by the NC Press Foundation offers lesson activities related to the newspaper’s coverage of town/city government and the local community.

Elementary & Middle School Multi-Curricular Resources

Elementary Activities - Getting Into the Newspaper / Part 1 - Pages 1-54
Part 2 - Pages 55-110
This guide offers over 200 newspaper lesson activities that address most content standards across the curriculum.

Using the Newspaper in Upper Elementary & Middle School Grades
This guide provides 50 newspaper lesson activity sheets plus 100 other short lesson plans in all major subject areas correlated to standards for grades 4-8.

Using the Newspaper to Teach Grade K-5 Standards in Major Subject Areas
This guide provides lesson plans correlated to most curriculum standards for grades K-5 in English, History/Social Science, Math and Science.

Using the Newspaper to Teach Standards in Middle School English
This guide provides lesson plans correlated to most middle school English curriculum standards. Although originally written for VA SOL's, activities will fit most state standards for middle school English.

Character Education Resources

Be Kind to Animals…and People Too! This Humane Education supplement, created in partnership with the American Humane Association, helps students learn compassion for all living things, both human and non-human. For more Humane Education resources visit the American Humane web site at: http://www.americanhumane.org/

Everyday Heroes
This Heroes and Dreams Foundation guide helps students 1) Resolve real-world dilemmas, 2) explore the consequences of their decisions and actions, and 3) discover and nurture relationships with others. Visit their web site at: http://www.heroesanddreams.org

Holocaust Timeline Lesson Plan
The Holocaust Timeline Lesson Plan is a review of the NAZI anti-Semitic pogroms and laws that went into effect between 1933 and 1945. The timeline marks the escalating levels of prejudice, discrimination, and terrifying violence targeting the many victims of the Holocaust. Lesson questions are provided.

MegaSkills
These 11 lesson plans help build children's achievement for the information age by encouraging development of the MegaSkills of: Confidence, Motivation. Effort, Responsibility, Initiative, Perseverance, Caring, Teamwork, Common Sense, Problem Solving, and Focus. 

Moral Reasoning Lesson Plans Using the Newspaper
Famous child psychologists, Piaget and Kohlberg, discovered that the way we think about moral problems develops throughout our lives. As we get older our logic becomes less self-centered and more complex, taking into consideration many factors. Thinking about problems at "higher stages" means that you take long-term consequences seriously, wonder if the actions will impact your character or integrity, respond to your pangs of conscience or feel a duty to care for others coming from deep within.

Service: Together We Can Make a Difference
This supplement will help teachers incorporate service and service learning into the curriculum to not only help the community, but to help students understand that they can make a difference.

Portraits of Character from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
There are 6 portraits of character on: 

Project: Solution Character Education Supplements: Thirty-six 8-page supplements are provided, eighteen for each grade level of K-3 & 3-7. Topics include:

Grade K-3  Grades 3-7

Topic

Grades K-3 Grades 3-7
Building Community PDF PDF
Caring PDF PDF
Courage PDF PDF
Doing Right  PDF PDF
Forgives   PDF PDF
Giving Service  PDF PDF
Gratitude  PDF PDF
Honesty PDF PDF
Loves Learning  PDF PDF
Models Democracy PDF PDF
Nurturing  PDF PDF
Persevering  PDF PDF
Respecting Others  PDF PDF
Respecting Self PDF PDF
Respecting Work  PDF PDF
Responsibility   PDF PDF
Solving Problems  PDF PDF
Taking Initiative    PDF PDF

Critical Thinking Skills & Gifted Students

Gifted Students Guide
The guide is designed for secondary students in gifted programs who have mastered the fundamentals of the curriculum and will benefit from advanced educational stimulation. However, many of the activities may be used successfully with a wide range of higher-achieving and highly motivated students.

Just Think!
This guide focuses on helping students develop higher-level thinking skills using the newspaper. Students need to be problem solvers and lifelong learners. The newspaper is a logical instructional medium for this cause. It is an authentic, real-world text, one that will engage students and provide the information they will need to make decisions throughout their lives.
Components include:

  • The Bloom Six, an overview of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives.
  • National Standards and Higher-Level Thinking Skills showing examples of higher-level thinking skills identified in national content standards.
  • Lesson Plans — presented in two parts: Open Their Minds, the teacher page, and Engage Your Brain, the student activity page.

Newspapers Maintain the Brain
A Teacher’s Guide for Using The Newspaper to Enhance Skills: (NAA) It has been called the living textbook and it lives up to that name. The newspaper can be used to enhance skills in reading, writing, listening, speaking, math, social studies and science. Critical thinking is a natural outgrowth of using the newspaper to learn. Each lesson begins with the skills involved in the process of that activity. Reproducible worksheets accompany most of the activities
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Diversity & Multicultural Literacy

Adolescent Literacy Through the Newspaper - Literacy, Multicultural Education, and Multiple Intelligence Theory
This NAA guide provides 10 core activities that deal with culture, which help students to examine themselves in the context of their cultural background. After each of the core activities, the guide provide related activities, some to extend the lesson and others based on the multiple intelligence theory, allowing students to spend time working from their gifts and talents.

All Together Now: Living and Learning in a Multicultural Society
This teacher guide looks at the role the newspaper can play in developing children’s literacy skills in a multicultural society. The activities are based on accepted education theories about the way children learn and the resources children bring to the learning setting.

Celebrate Diversity!
This guide provides newspaper lessons that help students explore six areas to celebrate diversity: race, gender, language, ethnicity, religion, and disability, while developing critical thinking skills.

ESL & Spanish Bilingual

100 Ways to Use the Newspaper/Bilingual Spanish/English Newspaper Activity Cards
100 bilingual newspaper activity cards for beginner to advanced in all major subject areas plus life skills, character education, and newspaper knowledge.

ESL, The Newspaper and the Classroom
Features that distinguish the activities in this guide as ESL are their sensitivity to diversity; their immersion in American culture; their focus on specific language needs—vocabulary, idioms, sentence structure, paragraphing, rhetorical patterns, nuances within language (e.g., puns, symbols, abbreviations, metaphors, personification, analogy); and their rigorous expectations for students.

Financial Literacy Student Supplements

Are You Ready for the Real World
This financial literacy supplement, correlated to national financial education standards, was written by the Center for Economic Education at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. The GMU Center is part of the Virginia Council on Economic Education and the National Council on Economic Education.

Be Money $mart (High-Res File 15 MB)
Low-Res File (1.6 MB) / This financial literacy guide published by Junior Achievement (JA), with support from the Allstate Foundation, educates young people on how to prepare for their financial future. This program includes a How-To guide for potential NIE sponsorship by partnering with JA and Allstate.

Focus on Finances
This financial literacy supplement offers Federal Trade Commission (FTC) content to help young consumers deal with issues of Identity Theft, Consumer Fraud, Debt, and Purchasing a New or Used Car.

Money Matters: The Importance of Global Cooperation
This supplement, created in partnership with the IMF Center, explores international monetary issues from 1871 to the present.  It ties in well with U.S. and World History courses.  A teacher guide accompanies the supplement.
Money Matters Teacher Guide

NEFE High School Financial Planning Program The goal of this program is to help students to learn how to responsibly and effectively manage their money for the rest of their life.  The NEFE High School Financial Planning Program has three main objectives, for students to: 1. Learn the financial planning process—what it is and what it can do for them; 2. Apply the process through assignments they will complete that relate to their experiences with money; and, 3. Take control of their finances, starting today.

Newspaper Finance Activities
Real-life newspaper lessons correlated to the NEFE supplement.

NEFE Copyright Information for NIE Program Usage
NIE PROFESSIONALS, please download and read the copyright information. It details the need for a contract for printing, in-paper and other usage by newspaper NIE programs.

The Stock Market
This supplement describes the many institutions and activities involved in helping people and companies buy and sell stock. The stock market is not just one market. Some of its institutions are traditional, floor-based stock exchanges, like the New York Stock Exchange, and some are electronic, computer-based markets like The NASDAQ Stock Market. They are all part of "the stock market" that students (and teachers) will come to understand through this supplement
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Wallet Wisdom Personal Finance Game
Created by a partnership between the Daily Advertiser (LA) and the Louisiana Council for Economic Education, the game is a fun way to teach students the fundamentals of personal finance.

National Standards in Personal Finance
The National Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy provides these revised, updated standards, benchmarks, application examples, and glossary of terms, as a framework for program design for use by teachers, curriculum specialists, instructional materials developers and educational policymakers.

First Amendment

First Amendment Curriculum Guide
Provided by the Illinois First Amendment Center in partnership with the Knight Foundation. Without question there is an urgent need for committed teaching, lively debate, and consistent application of the First Amendment. This guide will help teachers to do that.

First Things First - First Amendment Guide 
(NAA) Several studies have demonstrated that Americans lack comprehensive knowledge of the rights guaranteed them by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The goal of the First Things First: Using the Newspaper to Teach the Five Freedoms of the First Amendment activity guide is to provide a tool for teachers to build student awareness and understanding about the First Amendment. Incorporating newspaper activities into the curriculum achieves this goal using each of the five freedoms as the vehicle for instruction.

Freedom — It looks Good on You
This program aimed at students in grades 7-12, is designed to inspire a better understanding and greater appreciation of the First Amendment and its significance in safeguarding our free society.  The supplement has seven objectives: 1) examines the First Amendment in the context of the Bill of Rights and offers an overview of the document; 2) reviews the First Amendment’s five freedoms; 3) identifies nine categories of unprotected speech; 4) highlights First Amendment court decisions; 5) examines the ethics of free expression; 6) explores the First Amendment in our schools; and 7) discusses the need for greater support of the First Amendment in America’s educational system.

General Educational Development

Newspaper Literacy & General Educational Development
(By Craig Lancto) The newspaper presents students with authentic literature through which they learn about the real world. While students are studying grammar, language arts, social studies, etc., they are becoming familiar with the people and events that are shaping the future.  This guide also provides a section correlated to GED standards and target date activities.

Health

Be Healthy, Be Fit Guide
A curriculum guide for using the newspaper to teach health and fitness.

Get Focused: Eye Care and Safety Guides & Lessons Using the Newspaper
This web page, provided by VSG, offers several NIE guides and lessons related to eye care and safety and related topics.

Homeland Security, Crime Prevention & Anti-Drug

Anti-Drugs - Majority Rules - Most of us have something in our lives that’s important enough to stand between us and drugs. This supplement shows that many youth are making good choices - great choices - for themselves. Featured here are many of the personal "Anti-Drugs" that young people really care about and that they want to share with each other.

Choose to Be Ready – Homeland Security
This supplement, written by the America Prepared Campaign, helps families prepare for all types of emergencies, whether natural or man-made. Families develop a plan, assemble an emergency kit, and become informed about every kind of potential emergency.

Crime Prevention
Created in partnership with the National Crime Prevention Council, this supplement provides tips for students, parents, and teachers on how to keep themselves, their schools and their communities safe from crime.

Journalism & Press Freedom

Creating a Classroom Newspaper
Provides teachers and students all the guidance they need to create their own classroom newspaper, while developing writing and reading skills.

Glossary of Newspaper Terms

Journalism Web Resources
Online teacher resources for High School Journalism programs.

Let’s Write a Newspaper Story
(Johns Hopkins University) Get your students hooked on writing.  Imagine your students working cooperatively, motivated and staying focused on the task at hand.  They are writing real-world newspaper stories. With this easy-to-follow unit course, you will help students write authentic newspaper stories based on training developed during an educational partnership between the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and the Hammond Elementary School in Laurel, MD.

N the News
This NAA Foundation journalism guide provides a set of eight curriculum units that encompass lesson plans, subject content, activities and assessment tools for use with the daily newspaper.

Press Ahead!
Press Ahead! is a teaching tool and planning guide for creating a classroom newspaper. It provides background on the different sections and elements of a newspaper.

Speaking of a Free Press
This NAA Foundation publication offers 200 years of notable quotations about press freedoms.

The Newspaper: A Daily Miracle
This is a hands-on student supplement on journalism and the newspaper business. It covers every aspect and department at the newspaper with a chronology of a newspaper’s day.

Press Freedom in Practice / NAA Foundation
A manual for Student Media Advisors on responding to censorship.

Media Literacy

Five Key Questions That Can Change the World - Classroom Activities for Media Literacy
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media literacy classroom guide from the Center for Media Literacy provides 25 lesson activities base on five key questions that provide the new framework for media literacy.

Mastering the Message
(NAA) This guide is designed to help students gain control of media messages by analyzing them and then using what they learn to create messages of their own.

Media Literacy Kit
This new Media Lit Kit from the Center for Media Literacy helps organize and promote the importance of teaching this expanded notion of “literacy.” At its core are the basic higher-order critical thinking skills – e.g. knowing how to identify key concepts, how to make connections between multiple ideas, how to ask pertinent questions, formulate a response, identify fallacies – that form the very foundation of both intellectual freedom and the exercising of full citizenship in a democratic society.
Visit the Center for Media Literacy web site at: http://www.medialit.org

Messages & Meaning
(NAA) The instructional activities in this guide are organized around four units: Accessing, Analyzing, Evaluating, and Communicating Media Messages.  Each activity is identified by the media concept it illustrates with many accompanied by reproducible activity sheets.

Multiple Intelligences

Adolescent Literacy Through the Newspaper - Literacy, Multicultural Education, and Multiple Intelligence Theory
This NAA guide provides 10 core activities that deal with culture, which help students to examine themselves in the context of their cultural background. After each of the core activities, the guide provide related activities, some to extend the lesson and others based on the multiple intelligence theory, allowing students to spend time working from their gifts and talents.

Touching the Kaleidoscope of Your Mind: Activities for Multiple Intelligences
The newspaper activities in this guide are organized by the seven multiple intelligences identified by Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner.  There are activities for grades K-12.

NIE Art, Career Planning & Women

Art Activities Using the Newspaper

Career Day Scavenger Hunt

Celebrate Theatre
This guide includes information on the nature of theatre and theatre education and provides detailed lesson plans and student activity sheets.

Craft Ideas for Re-Using the Newspaper
Fun craft ideas that can be done with newspapers.

Entering The Workforce - How to get and Keep a Job
(grades 9-12) So students are looking for a new job… Where do they look? What's needed before they apply? What happens in a job interview? Once they get a job… How do they make a good impression? How can they be successful on the job? How do they get along with others? What can they do to move up to a better job? This student supplement gives students simple straightforward suggestions for finding and keeping a job that's right for them.

ESTEME Week (Excellence in Science, Tech., Engineering and Mathematics Education)
Provides information on ESTEME careers and how to prepare for them.

Mentoring Course Student Supplement from The National Mentoring Partnership
The mentoring relationship is usually between an adult (the mentor) and a teenager (the mentee). The relationship focuses on the teen's needs. Mentors encourage students to reach their goals based on developing a vision of the future. So, wherever students want to go, mentoring can help them get there!

Who Works at a Newspaper Flyer

Women’s History Guide
This guide provides biographies of 45 historic women celebrating their accomplishments.  A newspaper lesson activity is provided with each bio related to the woman’s area of achievement.

NIE Instructional Calendar:
Provides a subject specific focus for each day of the week with activities for every school day of the month and year: Monday - Language Arts, Tuesday - Social Studies, Wednesday – Math, Thursday – Science, Friday - Thematic for each month with topics of Newspaper Knowledge, Character Education, Critical Thinking, Life Skills, Careers, and Moral Reasoning.

Full Year NIE Instructional Calendar  PDF
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