WHAT THE KIDS ARE SAYING

"The Editorial Cartoon relates to the world just by drawing pictures. We have used the paper in many different ways including making a miniature project."

English & Language Arts

• Write an item in the Lost and Found (see classified ads) or write an obituary for
  • a fairy tale character,
  • a favorite book character or
  • yourself.
• Rewrite newspaper stories to be one-minute TV or radio news items. Broadcast your story to a group or class. Compare with TV and radio news.
• Rewrite classified ads to make complete sentences and punctuate correctly.

Health & Safety

• Determine which sports mentioned in The Albany Herald would be the most beneficial to you as a lifetime sport. Explain why.
• Write a letter to the Reader's Forum about a safety concern. Suggest what you think should be done and who should do it.
• Find examples of articles or columns about health or safety. Clip them for a notebook or bulletin board. Identify the 5 Ws and H (who, what, when, where, why, how) in each.

Math

• Compute savings on sale items or in grocery ads.
• List temperatures in the weather information from lowest to highest. Figure medians, averages of an area. Find the difference between selected cities lows and highs. Make a line graph of temperatures. Convert Fahrenheit to Celsius.
• Compute the average age of death from the obituaries or percentage of educational TV shows or percentage of news versus ads in the newspaper.
• Use a grid to enlarge a cartoon character.

Physical Education

• List the sports named in The Albany Herald. Find out game rules for one you don't know much about. Try one of them.
• Divide into groups or teams. Select words, pictures, articles or ads and act out the main idea for other groups or teams to guess.
• Plan and conduct a physical activity based on information in The Albany Herald about an event or issue in the community or nation.

Science

• Find an article about a scientific discovery. Summarize what it tells you.
• Look through the classified ads for science-related jobs. What kind of education or training would a person need for this job?
• Write a brief explanation of each weather symbol on The Albany Herald weather map and explain what conditions cause this kind of weather.

Social Studies

• Select someone in today's news to interview. Decide five questions to ask and predict how the person might answer. Role play the interview. (Do the same with a comic strip character.)
• Predict tomorrow's headlines by analyzing today's news. How close can you come?
• Find names of 20 cities in The Albany Herald. list them and find their latitude and longitude.

The Deseret Morning News

WHAT THE KIDS ARE SAYING

"Without the newspaper I wouldn’t have learned that there are toys full of lead. This knowledge has saved lives."