Whats In The News

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Whats In The News?

• Offers purpose and context for learning
• Connects classroom topics to real life events
• Legitimizes why are we learning this

2
Application

• Assign News assignment at beginning of new unit
• Assignment can be in class or projects that span
  over time
• Can be used for any topic
• Can be used for any grade level

3
Methods

• Limited only by creativity of teacher
• Any activity that draws a connection is effective
• Templates are suggested
• Can be as simple as Who, What,
  Where, When, Why, How fact sheet

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Weaknesses

• Not all students have resources at homeex.
  Internet, magazine subscriptions, etc.
• Not all students have support of family ex.
  Collage assignment example
• Media often subjective and misleading

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What can we learn from people in the news?

• This person is clearly not thinking.
• What harmful actions can people take when they
  dont think?...

The cool thing about being famous is traveling.
I have always wanted to travel across seas, like
to Canada and stuff. (Britney Spears)
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• Not thinking
• Smoking Not Cool

7

• Not thinking continued
• Drugs Bad Idea.

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• I want to wait to have sex until Im Married
  (Britney Spears)
• What went wrong? This is why we need personal
  health skills
• Whats in the news answers the why are we
  learning this question, bringing purpose and
  meaning to what we teach in the classroom.