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Reading the News: Worksheet

News-related Activities: Middle and High Schools

Using News in Elementary School (Example: Iraq)

Benefits of using news in the classroom

Articles

Pakistan's president declares state of emergency

Israel's premier has prostrate cancer (Oct. 30, 2007)

Britain pulls out of Iraq

Russia reestablishes relations with Cuba (9-01-08)

 

USING NEWS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Examples for Iraq

 

 

 

Iran in a Nutshell
80 pages
$7.95
  • Lifestyle comparisons
    • Muslim children
      • Hijab at puberty, prayer, Mecca, Ramadan
    • Living in war
      • Scarcity of food and clean water (typhoid, cholera)
      • Sporadic electricity (can’t boil water to clean it)
      • Lack of health care
      • Danger of going to school
      • Insecurity – country with weak rules
      • Unemployment
  • Geography
    • Mesopotamia
      • Cradle of Civilization
      • Tigris and Euphrates, fertile crescent
    • Trade
      • Routes to the sea
      • Silk road
      • Trade, war and the growth of Islam
    • Oil
      • What is it?
      • What is it used for?
      • Why is it scarce?
      • How do we get oil?
      • What would happen if there was no more oil?
      • How does the trade of oil fit into the free-market system?
      • How should it be divided among Iraqi’s?
    • Life in the desert
      • How do they get water?
  • Antiquity
    • Bible:
      • Garden of Eden
      • Tower of Babel (“Babylonia”)
      • Babylonian captivity
    • Epics of Gilgamesh
      • Story of the flood
  • Inventions and contributions
    • Cuneiform writing
    • Hammurabi’s code
    • (Abbasid Dynasty, Islam) Algebra, Arabic numerals, astronomy, medicine…

 

 

 

 

 

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