Curriculum CD
Your subscription comes with a CD containing 33 teacher guides on nearly every subject and nearly every grade level to help you plan your lessons. Teachers, parents and students can use these resources with both print and Smart Editions of the Boston Herald.
* Denotes Massachusetts Frameworks compatible material
ALL SUBJECTS:
Careers: Piecing together Your Future - Grades 6-12
Introduces students to the working world.
Cyber-Bullying - Grades 4-8
Clear, concrete ideas from the National Crime Prevention Council
Extra! Extra! Using the Newspaper - Grades 4-8
Activities that connect current events with subject content across the curriculum.
Newspaper Sponge Activities - All Grade Levels
Activities that reinforce standards- based skills in a short period of time.
ENGLISH - LANGUAGE ARTS:
Multi-genre Writing Using the Newspaper - Grades 6-8
Guide your students to a deeper level of critical thinking and understanding by showing them a new way to write a traditional research paper.
Read Well, Write Well* - Grades 2-5
Elementary level enrichment activities for school and home.
The Essential Question - Grades 4-12
Students learn to ask their own literal, inferential, and evaluative questions in order to process what they read.
GEOGRAPHY:
Pigskin Geography - Grades 4-8
Students explore geography through NFL teams and standings.
The Five Themes of Geography - Grades 3-8
MCAS- based teacher guides.
JOURNALISM:
Five Key Questions to Change the World - Grades 7-12
Help your students to become educated consumers of the wealth of information they are exposed to everyday.
Journalism and the News - Grades 9-12
A set of 8 curriculum units that encompass lesson plans, subject content, activities and assessment tools. This guide was designed to utilize the daily newspaper as a teaching tool in a journalism classroom.
Newspaper Terminology - All Grade Levels
Easy to use glossary.
Starting a Classroom Newspaper - All Grade Levels
Answers all beginner- level questions.
FOR PARENTS:
Elementary Activities - Grades 2-5
Activities divided in to five categories: newspaper activities, social studies, science, math and language arts.
It Takes Skills Grades - 3-5
This guide teaches students good work habits and study skills to help them succeed in school and in life.
Newspaper Fun for Parents & Children - All Grade Levels
Children learn best when parents are interested and involved in their education The newspaper is both an inexpensive and rich source of information a parent can share with their child. This guide will show you how to use the newspaper with your child.
CHARACTER EDUCATION:
Character Matters - Grades 3-8
Using the newspaper to teach character.
Baseball Brings the Community Together - Grades 4-10
This guide uses compelling and unique baseball history and facts to teach not only character skills but also language, communication, math and science.
FINANCIAL EDUCATION:
Banking: How Money Works - Grades 4-9
Information on saving & checking accounts, credit and other topics.
It’s the Economy- Grades 6-12
Everything we have, use, buy, read, wear or play with relates to economics in some way. The National Council on Economic Education supports 20 standard students must master in order to process economic concepts. This supplement explains the standards and enhances them with dynamic NIE activities and a look at the current state of the economy.
HISTORY/ SOCIAL SCIENCE:
* Massachusetts: Read All About It - Grades 4-8
This guide examines the past, present, and future of Massachusetts through the newspaper.
Understanding Editorial Cartoons - Grades - 6-12
This guide helps students to understand common caricatures and symbols as well as to define what makes a great editorial cartoon
Teaching the First Amendment - All Grade Levels
Students will analyze events in the newspaper and form conclusions incorporating the five freedoms of the First Amendment. This will help strengthen skills such as critical thinking, decision-making, summary writing, problem solving, researching, prioritizing, negotiating and organizing.
The Power & The Glory: The Constitution - Grades 6-12
Students will learn about The Constitution and the events in our history that led up to the creation of this most celebrated document. This guide takes students on a journey from the original document right up to constitutional controversies of today.
The Constitution & Today’s Newspaper - All Grade Levels
In this guide students learn and analyze political institutions, citizenship, historical events, civics and government.
MATH:
By The Numbers - Grades 6-8
The newspaper plays a vital role in the guide, which features lesson plans, activities and handouts for middle-school teachers and their students. It allows students to use their math skills with real numbers in the real world, from sports scores to automotive ads.
Looking at the Newspaper from a Different Angle - Grades 4-12
Focuses students on real-life mathematical experiences with the newspaper as a tool
SCIENCE:
Chemistry - Essential to Life - Grades 9-12
Connects the science of chemistry to the practical world we live in.
Hispanic Explorers in Science - Grades 4-10
A bilingual guide for students that provides biographies of Hispanic high achievers in a variety of scientific fields.
*Scientific Inquiry & the Frameworks - All Grade Levels
Enhances critical thinking skills using MCAS Frameworks
*What’s the Problem? - Technology Education - Grades 5-8
Focus on technology education using design briefs, instructional tools used to stimulate creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving.
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