Mission:
Learn about the news and how it is presented.
Evaluate select current events going around in your local community, state, country, or the world.
Your job:
Phase 1: The News
- Identify different ways people get news today.
- Name the Source
- How does it present the news?
- What news does it share?
- How often do they update or change the news they share?
- How is it different from other sources?
- What do you think is good about this source? What is bad?
- Interviews
- In your family how do people like to get news? Why?
- In your school how do people like to get news? Why? (Are teachers and friends different?)
Phase 2: The Newspaper
Now that you have examined many sources of news, let’s look at one of the oldest in more detail, the newspaper. Can you answer the below questions
- What different types of papers are there?
- What content do they include?
- What are the pros and cons of a newspaper?
Phase 3: Current Events
With the help of an adult pick three recent news stories. Write a short summary of them and be sure to answer the below questions.
- Where did you find the story first?
- Was it also in any other sources?
- Was the story reported on one time or many?
- Did the story seem important to you? Why or Why Not?
- What did you notice about how the story was written?
- What did the three news stories teach you?
Phase 4: Your Paper
Now it’s your turn to design a newspaper. Think about the following:
- What do you want your paper to focus on? (Your friends?, What’s happening in your school?, Your community? The world?)
- What do you need to do to write articles?
- What supplies do you need to create the paper?
- Who would you try to sell the newspaper too?
- Now that you have answered these questions make a decision tree that gives a high-level overview of your paper.
Create a mock paper
- Do research and interviews to write some stories for your newspaper. It doesn’t have to be long.
- Perhaps you want to take pictures or draw comics and art for your paper
- Make sure you design how you will lay out the articles
- Build the paper on the computer.
- Print and share