Political Systems 4th

Social Studies Skills 4th/5th: Indicator #7

Social Studies Skills: Fourth and Fifth

Students will demonstrate an understanding of historical and current events using chronological and spatial thinking, develop historical interpretations, and frame questions that include collecting and evaluating information from primary and secondary sources.

In the context of Maryland up to contemporary times and United States history through 1790, students are able to do everything required at earlier grades and are able to:

Indicator #7
Analyze issues by stating the issue, identifying and summarizing viewpoints, and drawing conclusions based on evidence.

A lesson plan for a game called, Current Event Jeopardy
http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Social_Studies/Current_Events/CUR0002.html

A lesson plan for using the newspaper and current events
http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Social_Studies/Current_Events/CUR0001.html

A lesson plan for current events
http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Social_Studies/Current_Events/CUR0003.html

A huge resource is TIME for KIDS
http://www.pathfinder.com/TFK/

Weekly Reader has lesson plans and ideas for current events
http://www.weeklyreader.com/features/teacher.html

Baltimore Sun Newspaper site
http://www.sunspot.net/

The Washington Post site
http://www.washingtonpost.com/

The New York Times site
http://www.nytimes.com/

Life Magazine gives a picture of the day and terse prose to describe the most important event of yesterday.
http://pathfinder.com/Life/

Newsweek Magazine online
http://www.newsweek.com/

Discover Magazine online
http://www.discover.com/

USA Today online
http://www.usatoday.com/

The Cumberland Times-News online
http://www.times-news.com/timesnew.html

The History Channel Online, This Day in History
http://www.historychannel.com/thisday/

A similar site to this day in history, it is a text based almanac
http://www.nortexinfo.net/McDaniel/cc.htm

CE is a news service produced by kids reporting on the issues that affect their lives.
http://www.cenews.org/

Ann Butcher provides an interdisciplinary project for grades 4-6 that combines the many aspects of creating a newspaper with use of the Internet.
http://www-ed.fnal.gov/linc/fall95/projects/butcher/Internetproject2.html

Twenty-five ideas for teaching current events
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson072.shtml

Yahooligans Current Eventsite for children
http://www.yahooligans.com/content/news

A list of online newspapers identified by Yahooligans
http://www.yahooligans.com/The_Scoop/Newspapers/

The CNN Daily Newsroom Guide for current events
http://learning.turner.com/newsroom/index.html

Nickelodeon's site for teachers
http://www.teachers.nick.com/index.html

ABC News Online site
http://abcnews.go.com/

A social studies and current event site for various grade levels
http://www.eduplace.com/ss/current/index.html

NBC Online at MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.com

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