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Today's Front Pages Lesson PlanToday's Front Pages Lesson Plan
Publisher
Newseum
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6th - 12th
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21 Century Skills
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Today's Front Pages

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This Today's Front Pages lesson plan also includes:
  • Newseum's Today's Front Pages
  • Front Page Poster
  • Stories of the Century Exhibit
  • Graphic Organizer
  • Worksheet
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Take a close look at a number of newspapers with collection of lessons and activities. Using a poster (which can be found under the materials tab), learners examine the hard copy of a local newspaper. This leads into an exploration of various front pages, the content of articles, a perusal of archived newspapers, and a close look at headlines, mastheads, and 100 famous news stories.

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Concepts

media analysis, primary sources, primary source analysis, news media

Additional Tags

front page news, news, primary source document, news media, media analysis, social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • One page of the resource provides a page of activity ideas that the teacher can choose from; alternatively, you could invite pupils to select one or two of the activities to complete
  • Spend some time in the computer lab examining these online exhibits

Pros

  • The sources learners will be using are nicely put together and relevant
  • Extension ideas are included, as are many days worth of lessons and activities

Cons

  • The PowerPoint mentioned in one of the application ideas (Abandoning the News) is no longer available; you will need to find other information to support this activity

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