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* = Also includes adaptations for other grade levels

Careers

• Lincoln’s Characteristics & Career (Grades 6-8)*
• Lincoln’s Political Career (Grades 6-8)*

Citizenship/Conflict Resolution

• Conflict Resolution (Grades 3-5)*
• Face on a $5 Bill (Grades 3-5)*

Fact & Opinion/Fact & Fiction/Editorials

• Across the Spectrum (Fact vs. Opinion) Grades (9-12)*
• Fact or Fiction (Grades 3-5)*
• How Are These Not Like the Other? (Grades 3-5)*
• Symbols & Sarcasm (Grades 9-12)*
• To Tell the Truth (Grades 6-8)*

First Amendment

• A Palette of Information (Grades 6-8)*
• First Amendment at Work (Grades 6-12)*
• It Is Our Right (All Grades Adaptations)
• Newseum activities
• The First Amendment (Grades 6-12)*

Games

• Journalism Career Game
• Help Abe Get to the White House

Grammar/Vocabulary

• Be Clean (Grade 3-5)*
• Be Kind (Grade 3-5)*

Journalist Jargon

• The Scoopy Press

Lincoln Activities (Social Studies)

• Abraham Lincoln Loved to Read (K-5)*
• Conflict Resolution (Grades 3-5)*
• Face on a $5 Bill (Grades 3-5)*
• Fact or Fiction (Grades 3-5)*
• First Amendment at Work (Grades 6-12)*
• Help Abe Get to the White House
• Life & Times of Abraham Lincoln (K-2)*
• Lincoln & the Civil War (Grades 9-12)*
• Lincoln: An Eloquent Speaker (Lincoln quotes)
• Lincoln: From the Frontier to the White House (K-2)*
• Lincoln’s Characteristics & Career (Grades 6-8)*
• Lincoln’s Famous Documents (Grades 6-8)*
• Lincoln’s Political Career (Grades 6-8)*
• Places Lincoln Lived & Visited (Grades 3-5)*

Online Activities

• Newspapers on the Web
• Click here for a list of Indiana newspapers searchable by paper name, city and county.

Parts of the Newspaper (Learning About)

• It Starts with Parts (K-2)*
• Journalist Jargon
• Rainbow of Parts (K-2)*
• Scavenger Hunts (below)
  • It Starts with Parts (K-2)*
  • Making Your Way Across the Rainbow
  • Patriotic Colors (Follow the Leader) (Grades 9-12)*

Reading

• Abraham Lincoln Loved to Read (K-5)*
• Five W’s and the H: Building Blocks of a Story (Grades 3-5)
• Main Idea: The MAIN Game (Grade 3-5)

Research & Other Sources

• Hall of Fame/Hall of Shame (Grades 9-12)*
• In a Galaxy Far, Far Away (Grades 6-8)*
• Weather Genie? (Grades 6-8)*

Scavenger Hunts through the Newspaper

• It Starts with Parts (K-2)*
• Making Your Way Across the Rainbow
• Patriotic Colors (Follow the Leader) (Grades 9-12)*

Similarities and Differences/Compare and Contrast

• A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words (K-2)*
• Healthy Is as Healthy Does (K-2)*
• Life & Times of Abraham Lincoln (K-2)*
• Lincoln & the Civil War (Grades 9-12)*
• Lincoln’s Famous Documents (Grades 6-8)*
• Lincoln’s Political Career (Grades 6-8)*
• Places Lincoln Lived & Visited (Grades 3-5)*

Summarizing/Analyzing/Sequencing

• A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words (K-2)*
• Be Safe (Grade 3-5)*
• Finding the Pot of Gold (Grade 3-5)*
• Hall of Fame/Hall of Shame (Grades 9-12)*
• Healthy Is as Healthy Does (K-2)*
• Lincoln: From the Frontier to the White House (K-2)*
• My House (K-2)*
• Patriotic Colors (Follow the Leader) (Grades 9-12)*
• Summarize/Analyze (Grades 9-12)

Target Date Project

• Activities to compare how different papers cover issues

Teaching Parts of the Newspaper

• Advertising (Lists of activities for all grade levels.)
• Editorial/Opinion (Lists of activities for all grade levels.)
• Features (Lists of activities for all grade levels.)
• News (Lists of activities for all grade levels.)
• Sports (Lists of activities for all grade levels.)
• Weather: Weather Genie? (Grades 6-8)*

Writing

• A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words (K-2)*
• First Amendment at Work (Grades 6-12)*
• Five W’s and the H
  • The Building Blocks of a Story (Grades 3-5)
• Fix It (Grades 6-8)*
• Flip the Rainbow (Grades 3-5)*
• Lincoln’s Famous Documents (Grades 6-8)*
• Main Idea
  • The MAIN Game (Grade 3-5)
• Places Lincoln Lived & Visited (Grades 3-5)*
• Summarize/Analyze (Grades 9-12)
• Work Hard – Perseverance Path (Grades 6-8)*

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