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Curriculum Resources for the Alaskan Environment
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Subject Areas:
all
Timeline: three
months
Grade Levels:
7-12
Purpose: to introduce the
students to an urban newspaper that reports local,
state, national, and international events; to
expose students to problems other people in the
world face
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J. Boyle
Newspapers
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Activities
- Subscribe to an Anchorage daily
newspaper.
- Discuss the news in
class.
- Analyze world affairs, financial
news, local issues, weather conditions, sports,
classified listings, editorial page, letters to the
editor, etc.
Resources
- Anchorage Times, Anchorage
Daily News, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Juneau Empire,
local papers
- encyclopedias to gather more
information on subjects mentioned in the
newspaper
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Variations
- Subscribe to several newspapers
and compare the different ways they cover the same
story.
- Include The Tundra Times
and The Tundra Drums.
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