Social Studies

Select someone in today's news to interview. Decide five questions to ask and predict how the person might answer. Role play the interview. (Do the same with a comic strip character.)

Predict tomorrow's headlines by analyzing today's news. How close can you come?

Find names of 20 cities in the Deseret News. List them and find their latitude and longitude.

English/Language Arts

Write an obituary for: a fairy tale character, a favorite book character, yourself or an item in the Lost and Found (see classified ads).

Rewrite newspaper stories to be one-minute TV or radio news items. Broadcast your story to a group or class. Compare with TV and radio news.

Rewrite classified ads to make complete sentences and punctuate correctly.

Math

Compute savings on sale items or in grocery ads.

List temperatures in the weather information from lowest to highest. Figure medians, averages of an area. Find the difference between selected cities lows and highs. Make a line graph of temperatures. Convert Farenheit to Celsius.

Compute the average age of death from the obituaries or percentage of educational TV shows or percentage of news versus ads in the newspaper.

Use a grid to enlarge a cartoon character.

Science

Find an article about a scientific discovery. Summarize what it tells you.

Look through the classified ads for science-related jobs. What kind of education or training would a person need for this job?

Write a brief explanation of each weather symbol on the Deseret News weather map and explain what conditions cause this kind of weather.

Health & Safety

Determine which sports mentioned in the Deseret News would be the most beneficial to you as a lifetime sport. Explain why.

Write a letter to the Reader's Forum about a safety concern. Suggest what you think should be done and who should do it.

Find examples of articles or columns about health or safety. Clip them for a notebook or bulletin board. Identify the 5 Ws and H (who, what, when, where, why, how) in each.

Physical Education

List the sports named in the Deseret News. Find out game rules for one you don't know much about. Try one of them.

Divide into groups or teams. Select words, pictures, articles or ads and act out the main idea for other groups or teams to guess.

Plan and conduct a physical activity based on information in the Deseret News about an event or issue in the community or nation.