DrugstoreCowgirl
Joined: 08 May 2009
Location: Daegu-where the streets have no name
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 Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:44 am Post subject: Using Magazines For Class Projects |
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I have a bunch of old magazines, mostly Us Weekly and National Geographic. I was going to toss them, but then thought maybe I should ask my co-teacher if I should bring them in for the kids to look at.
But THEN I thought that maybe I should hold on to them for summer camp because I might be able to use them for a project. Only I'm not sure what project that would be. Has anyone else ever done a camp project with magazines and if so do you have any suggestions or ideas? |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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Never tried it personally, but there was an interesting idea here a few years ago about doing a scavenger hunt with a bunch of old newspapers:
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You should try a newspaper scavenger hunt with your classes.
I never ever thought this would go over as well as it did, and it was one of those experimental ideas where I had a backup lesson just in case. I had a bunch of old newspapers sitting around and thought I could get some use out of them. My students loved it. It was a nice change of pace from using a text book, and who doesn't like cutting stuff up? They were also very interested in the newspapers (some old ones from home, none of this Korea Herald nonsense), and were asking me what lots of words meant. I've never seen my middle school students so engaged and actually excited, so I just thought I'd share with you. It is also a good opportunity to teach them newspaper-related vocabulary, and can easily be stretched into two class periods.
Here are the worksheet questions I asked:
1. Find an advertisement for a car. Cut it out and glue it. Then answer these questions.
What kind of car is it?
What is the year of the car?
How much does it cost?
2. Find a crime that occurred that the newspaper reported. Cut out the headline of the story and glue it.
What was the crime?
3. Find your horoscope in the newspaper. Cut it out and glue it. Then answer the questions.
What is your horoscope sign?
What kind of day does your horoscope say you will have? (your own words)
4. Find the weather and temperature for a city. Cut out the forecast and glue it. Then answer the questions.
What is the name of the city?
What will the weather be like?
What will the high and low temperature be?
5. Find a cartoon with people at work. Cut it out and glue it.
6. Find an interesting picture. Cut it out and glue it. Then answer the questions.
Who or what is in the picture?
What is happening in the picture?
7. Find an advertisement for a job. Cut it out and glue it. Then answer the questions.
What is the job that is advertised?
Who do you call if you are interested in the job?
8. Find a number bigger than 2000 (not a year). Cut it out and glue it.
9. Find an advertisement for some kind of food. Cut it out and glue it.
10. Find a number that is written in letters. For example: four hundred instead of 400. Cut it out and glue it.
11. Write the name of a puzzle that is in this newspaper.
12. List five things that are for sale in the newspaper, and how much they cost.
13. Write down the name of the newspaper.
14. How much does the newspaper cost? |
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