Unit Planner: The News in the

Community
Submitted By: Courtney Donnelly



EDEL 453: Teaching Elementary School Social Science
Nevada State College Spring 2014
Instructor: Karen Powell
EDEL 453 - Spring 2014 Karen Powell- Instructor

UNIT PLANNER: The News in the Community Submitted By: Courtney Donnelly
Summary of Lesson Plan NV State Social Studies Objectives Notes
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In this lesson, I will introduce
the idea and importance of
the news to the students. We
will discuss as a class all the
different types of things
where we can get news
about the community from.

H3.2.6A Read and discuss news
events in the community.

T
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S
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For this day in the lesson, I
will have the students look
more into the stories that are
in the newspaper. As a class,
we are going to discuss all
the different types of news
that we can read in the
newspaper.

H3.2.6A Read and discuss news
events in the community.

W
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D
N
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S
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For todays part of the unit, I
am going to explain in more
detail what I expect from the
group project as well show a
couple examples of what I
did.

H3.2.6A Read and discuss news
events in the community.

T
H
U
R
S
D
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In this lesson the students
will continue to work on their
curious brains as they finish
up their part with the
newspaper.

H3.2.6A Read and discuss news
events in the community.

F
R
I
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Today is the day the students present
what they have created for the
classroom newspaper!
H3.2.6A Read and discuss news
events in the community.