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NYNPA niE-News
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Volume 7, Number 4 Monday, April 13, 2015
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| CIVICS EDUCATION CORNER |
Magna Carta: Cornerstone of the U.S. Constitution  An EDSITEment lesson on the web from the National Endowment for the Humanities teaching the principles found in Magna Carta and embraced by the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. A Newspaper In Education series of features on the same topic with Supreme Court cases relevant to kids can be found on the NYNPA website at www.nynpa.com/nie/lawday.html
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FAMILY ENGAGEMENT IN EDUCATION
- TIP OF THE MONTH - |
 Scholastic Offers Parents Suggestions for Playing with Poetry Here's one tip: Read it aloud. Many adults are intimidated by the conventions of poetic form, but poetry - especially children's poetry - is full of wonder, energy, and a sense of humor. Read poetry by different poets to find those you like; a love of poetry is contagious, so be enthusiastic! For more tips
For more information about Family Engagement in Education go to New York State Family Engagement Coalition
Click on the logo below for information about how to join.
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| Need NIE Training?! | | Whether you need to train someone on staff at your newspaper to handle Newspaper In Education and youth outreach or someone to conduct professional development NIE training for local teachers - It's available FREE to all NYNPA member newspapers!
Contact Mary Miller at mmiller@nynpa.com to discuss the possibilities.
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Celebrate Earth Day - Share "Going Green" Curriculum Guide with your NIE Teachers
Free for NYNPA members and aligned to the Common Core State Standards
|  The 12 lessons in this teaching guide are designed to be startingpoints for implementation of instruction to expand students' knowledge of the use and abuse of the natural resources in the state of New York and elsewhere, and of efforts to meet the need for resource conservation and stewardship. These lessons employ the daily newspaper's current and archival wealth as a source of information, investigation and source material for instruction. Each lesson is aligned to both the NYS Learning Standards and the new Common Core State Standards.
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| Law Day (May 1) - New FREE NIE 8-part series and graphic organizers available soon.
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 The NYNPA NIE Program has finished creating an 8-part series based on this year's American Bar Association theme, Magna Carta 800: Symbol of Freedom Under Law.
The series features measure 2 columns x 8 1/2 inches and briefly highlight key principles from this historic document that have been incorporated into the U.S. Constitution.
All components of this project are free to NYNPA members because of financial support from the Law, Youth and Citizenship Program of the NYS Bar Association. To review and download this content go to www.nynpa.com/nie/lawday.html
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| Newest Approach for Teaching Social Studies - Inquiry Design Model
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The Inquiry Design Model (IDM) is an approach for developing inquiry that features the core elements of the C3 Framework's Inquiry Arc. Beginning with a compelling question and standards alignment, the model suggests a series of supporting questions, related formative performance tasks, and sources for completing these tasks. The IDM model culminates with a summative performance task and plan for taking informed action.
Visit http://www.c3teachers.org/idm/ to download a word doc copy of the blueprint and a Inquiry Design Model at a glance document to understand how compelling questions should be formatted.
New York State is adapting this approach and working on a K-12 Social Studies Resource Toolkit and Professional Development. Click here for more about this Toolkit project at Binghamton University.
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FREE Serial Story - "From Seneca Falls to the Polling Booth"
Voting Poster Contest - Cash award for winning students paid for by NYNPA NIE Program
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Free Teaching Resources for Spring
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April 22 is Earth Day - Here are a few NIE resources to help teachers connect newspapers with this event:
Living Green: A Turtle's Quest for a Cleaner Planet - A free electronic Earth Day book for NIE newspapers. Tired of seeing the land he loves cluttered with trash, Thurman the turtle decides it's time to take action written by Artie Knapp, illustrated by M.J. Illustrations. For additional short stories for kids you may re-publish, see a few on the NYNPA website at http://www.nynpa.com/nie/nieshortstories.html or contact Artie Knapp at knapp73@yahoo.com.
 The EGBAR Foundation's EGBARŽ Clean-Up Challenge is designed to educate children with the use of a newspaper. Most of the lessons included in the curriculum involve cut and paste activities. This design allowed the curriculum to virtually never become outdated due to the current topics offered by the newspaper. (EGBAR is an acronym for Everything's Gonna Be All Right)
In addition to the lessons and projects offered to coincide with the use of a newspaper, there are many environmental projects that can be done without it. Such as an environmental scavenger hunt or just finding out about basic environmental facts!
Download The EGBAR Clean-Up Challenge Curriculum Guide.Download and print out your very own EGBAR Coloring Book, featuring EGBAR in different poses that you can color any way you like! Download The EGBAR Coloring Book.________________________________________
 Every day is Earth Day for people who care about the environment. But for one day each year, people all over the world join forces to call attention to the beauty of the Earth and the ways in which we can protect it. Here are some quick Newspaper In Education ideas to share with your teachers: - Ask students to pick one product advertised in the newspaper and discuss the effects that product might have on the environment.
- Have students find a story or photo in the paper that causes them concern about the environment and explain why.
- Instruct students to look through the newspaper for items that can be recycled or reused. Ask them to list the items and find out how each can be recycled in your community. If recycling is not an option - can the items be re-purposed in any way? Finish the lesson by having students come up with their own ways to recycle newspapers (use as wrapping paper, paper mache, etc.). Encourage them to be creative.
_______________________________ The New York Times' Learning Networks offers Ways to Celebrate National Poetry Month With The New York Times at http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/11-ways-to-celebrate-national-poetry-month-with-the-new-york-times/ ________________________________________ Current word lists and puzzles from MyVocabulary.com:
All MyVocabulary.com content is printable for NIE programs without a charge. Please honor trademarks and copyright, giving MyVocabulary.com attribution.
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"NYNPA niE-News" is an electronic newsletter of the New York News Publishers Association, NIE Program. It is sent to provide you with news of your colleagues, money-saving and money-generating ideas, and educational trends, all in one place - in a format you can quickly scroll through. Feel free to forward this newsletter to anyone you think would benefit from it. If you have an item you'd like to share - a success story, a warning so others don't make the same mistake, or a something you'd like advice on, simply hit the "reply" button on your e-mail service. Remember, you can always send news by emailing Mary Miller at mmiller@nynpa.com. |
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For more NYNPA NIE news and materials be sure to visit our website at www.nynpa.com.
Sincerely,
Mary Miller
Education Services Director New York News Publishers Association
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