Social Studies Lesson Plans

Class History Book

"I bring in the newspaper from home everyday until I have six days worth. I divide my class into groups and ask them to find an article with an international dateline, another state's dateline and our state's dateline. They staple these on an 8 x 11 piece of paper. Each group briefly tells the rest of the class about their articles. I fill in information and we file them. Each month I redistribute the month's pages and we narrow the articles down to the best six. We post these on the board and the students vote on which ones to keep. At the end of the school year we'll have twelve news pages for a class history book."
Submitted by: Joanne Goodrich gjgdrich@email-removed , a fifth grade teacher at Deadwood Elementary School in Deadwood, South Dakota. This tip was published in the NEA's Weekly Tip Newsletter.