Integration of Web Resources
The website http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/02/lp258-04.shtml contains a lesson plan titled "Heads Up for Headlines!" from the Education World site. The lesson is basic and designed for multiple grade levels with many modifications. The basic task for students is to create headlines for news stories that have had the headline removed. For older students, critiques of their peers' headlines could be integrated into the lesson as well.
Upon reading the entire lesson plan, a list of web resources was provided. These sources included Education World's News for KIDS, CNN Student News, New York Times Learning Network, PBS Online NewsHour Extra: News for Students, Scholastic News Zone, StudentNewsNet, TIME for Kids, and Weekly Reader Galaxy. Each of these sites contains news stories that pertain to students and younger children. While these are good resources for the producing headlines lesson plan, simplifying world news is not always the best way to teach a lesson. Bringing the real world into the classroom is a good way to help students become aware of the activities that are occurring around them at all times. However, the teacher must be screening the material that students are reading.
To screen the materials that students are reading for this lesson plan or for my own lesson plan, posting news stories onto a teacher website helps to determine what students are reading. Also, if they are being directed to a newspaper, certain sections should be pre-selected by the teacher to be grade appropriate.
For my own lesson plan, the integration of the aforementioned websites could be beneficial, but I would add a few others to the cache for students. For example, www.nieonline.com is a great resource to connect students to their local newspapers. This site is called Newspaper in Education. It supplies teachers with newspapers for free as instructional materials and also provides online lesson plans for teacher use. The site has numerous links that could be used during other lesson plans in this unit, including a site containing comics for the classroom.
Other resources would be the local and international newspapers that are posted online. For example, www.tribnet.com sends students to the Tacoma News Tribune website. On this site, along with many other online newspapers, there is a search option that would allow students to look for specific articles that follow guidelines for an assignment like the headlines assignment or the 5 W's and an H assignment. This search could also be on a topic about which the student is interested. Limiting the student in their topic could be detrimental to their excitement and interest in working with a newspaper; a resource that is often seen as boring and limited to the world of grown-ups. Searching newspaper sites for interesting topics could be a great way to get students excited about working with and creating newspapers.
Upon reading the entire lesson plan, a list of web resources was provided. These sources included Education World's News for KIDS, CNN Student News, New York Times Learning Network, PBS Online NewsHour Extra: News for Students, Scholastic News Zone, StudentNewsNet, TIME for Kids, and Weekly Reader Galaxy. Each of these sites contains news stories that pertain to students and younger children. While these are good resources for the producing headlines lesson plan, simplifying world news is not always the best way to teach a lesson. Bringing the real world into the classroom is a good way to help students become aware of the activities that are occurring around them at all times. However, the teacher must be screening the material that students are reading.
To screen the materials that students are reading for this lesson plan or for my own lesson plan, posting news stories onto a teacher website helps to determine what students are reading. Also, if they are being directed to a newspaper, certain sections should be pre-selected by the teacher to be grade appropriate.
For my own lesson plan, the integration of the aforementioned websites could be beneficial, but I would add a few others to the cache for students. For example, www.nieonline.com is a great resource to connect students to their local newspapers. This site is called Newspaper in Education. It supplies teachers with newspapers for free as instructional materials and also provides online lesson plans for teacher use. The site has numerous links that could be used during other lesson plans in this unit, including a site containing comics for the classroom.
Other resources would be the local and international newspapers that are posted online. For example, www.tribnet.com sends students to the Tacoma News Tribune website. On this site, along with many other online newspapers, there is a search option that would allow students to look for specific articles that follow guidelines for an assignment like the headlines assignment or the 5 W's and an H assignment. This search could also be on a topic about which the student is interested. Limiting the student in their topic could be detrimental to their excitement and interest in working with a newspaper; a resource that is often seen as boring and limited to the world of grown-ups. Searching newspaper sites for interesting topics could be a great way to get students excited about working with and creating newspapers.
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