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Newspaper Activities Teacher Notes We often ask pupils to produce a newspaper for us, as a way of presenting information, of showing they have understood a topic, or sometimes as a fun way to finish off an activity. If we use the computer to produce the banner, the date and the price pupils have to concentrate on the history. By providing opening sentences, or sequences of sentences we also allow the 'reluctant writers' amongst our pupils to focus on the history rather than on the chore of writing. This activity can easily fit into a Literacy scheme of work. These activities use a newspaper template to get pupils to produce a newspaper. The activities should ideally be done at the computer, although they could be printed off and completed away from the screen. In the case of the Key Stage 2 activities by using scissors and glue to stick the photograph/headline/date/sentences in the appropriate box on the page and at Key Stage 3 by writing in the appropriate information. At Key Stage 2 the newspaper activities focus on two particular significant events in the history of Preston - the 1842 riots and a Royal Visit in 1913. It would also be fairly easy to modify the activity to focus on another example taken from the vast amount of information contained on the site. Pupils 'drag' and 'drop' the appropriate text into the relevant box, and choose an appropriate photograph to support their story. At Key Stage 3 the template is left blank to allow pupils to select an event of their own, or be directed by the teacher to an appropriate place. The Database and the Timeline provide plenty of options. You could focus on one of the Parliamentary Reports - eg 1816 Report on Child Labour, or interviews with workers that feature on the site, or a significant change to the Factory, or a new invention, war, etc, etc, etc. The point is that you can focus pupil activity where it fits in with your scheme of work. The open-ended nature of the task gives you plenty of scope. |