Newspapers
Resources for Your Class!
Feature
Inquirer Tech.life
Site
Featured
Web Resources
Newspaper-Classroom
Links
Newspaper
Directories
Following up on the Weekly Websites PBS
Online and Useful
Resources for Philadelphia Educators which explore
local and national media resources for educators, this
site introduces teachers to useful newspaper resources
available in-print and online. The Philadelphia
Inquirer's Tech.life section (link to Philadelphia
Online), printed every Thursday, is featured as a
wonderful example of a local newspaper resource for
teachers which is available online for teachers
nationwide. In addition, sites which connect newspapers
to classroom through projects and activities are listed
in the Newspaper-Classroom Links
section. Finally, the Newspaper
Directories section links you to student newspapers
as well as thousands of newspapers worldwide.
Feature
"Tech.life"
Site!
Each week Joyce Kasman Valenza,
Philadelphia Inquirer's Tech.k12 columnist and
Wissahickon High School Library Information Specialist,
explores the roles of the Internet and media in the
classroom and provides readers with a host of useful
resources and ideas. Her August 27th article, Internet
helps make teachers end-of-summer crunch bearable,
discusses Web resources for teachers and provides Web
addresses, linked below, for twenty useful Web sites to
set you on your way. Many of the sites she describes can
also be found on the Philadelphia Education Fund's
Useful
Resources for Philadelphia Educators.
Joyce
Kasman Valenza's
"Web Resources for
Teachers"
Annenberg
Institute for School
Reform
Ask
ERIC Virtual Library
Classroom
Connect
Collaborative
Lesson Archive
Connections
+
EdSitement
Ed's
Oasis
The
Gateway (GEM
Project)
Global
Schoolhouse
ICONnect
Kathy
Schrock's Guide for
Educator's
Library
of Congress Education
Page
Teacher
Connex (PBS)
Teachers
College (Columbia
University)
Teaching
and Learning on the
Web
UtahLINK
WebQuest
Page
WWW4
Teachers
Newspaper-Classroom
Links:
Join the Newspapers
in Education Program
(NIE)! Classrooms that participate in the NIE program
receive newspapers free of
charge because they are
sponsored by local businesses. The program includes free
teaching materials and lesson plans. Whether you join or
not, you can link to ready-to-use
activities. Click here
for more links from their main
page.
Star
Tribune Online Idea:
This is a colorful must-see
site with links to useful
information for teachers, parents, and students. Find
articles, classroom activities and games, Web links, and
links to free
educational programs and
projects!
USA
Today Classline: When
teachers enroll in the Classline program, they receive
class sets of USA TODAY and,
free
of
charge, the daily Classline
Today teaching plan. This four-page plan provides
teachers with activities for specific stories in that
day's newspaper that can be integrated into several
curriculum areas. Classline also offers teaching guides
and student supplements targeting specific topics or
themes. Whether you join USA Today Classline or not, link
to the site and find useful teaching
tips for your subject
area and much more!
Surfing
the Net with Kids: This
site is an excellent resource for parents and teachers.
From this page you can link to online
encyclopedias and
Barbara J. Feldman's weekly websites! With links ranging
from grammar to science experiments, you are sure to find
one which will be useful in your classroom or with your
kids at home!
Daryl
Cagle's Pro-Cartoonist Index
Homepage explores the
use of editorial cartoons in the elementary, middle, and
secondary school classrooms. This site even incorporates
lesson plans for all age levels!
In addition to news and current
events, The
New York Times
has both science and technology sections online
daily.
Newspaper
Directories:
Yahoo's
K-12 Newspapers:
Newspapers and journals written by K-12
students!
Campus
Newspapers on the
Internet
Links
to US Newspapers Organized By
State