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ULTIMATE ACTIVITY GUIDES
Ultimate Activity Guide II – Focus on Standards
This guide features over 240 standards-based, newspaper-related activities in eight major subject areas: language arts, history, geography, civics/government, science/tech, math, economics, and arts & humanities.
Ultimate Activity Guide I
This guide features over 232 newspaper-related activities in several subject areas: language arts, social studies, science/tech, math, and economics.
Ultimate Holiday Activity Guide
From New Year’s Day to Eat a Pickle Day, this guide covers it all with a day-to-day look at the special days that we set aside to honor events and people. Special days listed for nearly every day of the year.
Ultimate Sunday Activity Guide
This guide features newspaper-related activities using the Sunday edition of the newspaper.
IN-PAPER AD SERIES
Civic Literacy
Help students understand our basic rights and freedoms. The six units are: Bill of Rights, Citizenship, Congress, Pledge of Allegiance, Veteran’s Day, and We the People.
Fitness Adds Up
Inform students about of the benefits of exercise and a healthy diet. The six units are: Keep the (heart) Beat, Added Value (additives), Exercise Your Life, Looking at Labels, Put Down the Joystick, and Got a Problem.
Fuel for Thought
Students learn about fuels like coal, oil, natural gas, and others and how we can conserve them (12 units).
It's a Free Country
Discusses the value of freedom, freedom with restrictions, political freedom, freedom of the press, First Amendment rights, and economic freedom.
Law in Your Life
Covers how laws affect students, including searching private property at school such as backpacks, free speech and the Internet, testing for drugs on the team, expanding the right to vote, and dress codes.
Life Skills
This bilingual English/Spanish feature discussed life skills in communication, consumerism, education, finances, health care, and nutrition (6 units on each topic, 36 total).
Real Cost of Living
Students learn that life on their own is cool, but expensive. Six units provide a reality check on issues of getting a job, cost of living, housing, life without parental support, transportation, and life’s wildcards.
Safety Soup
This 4-unit series spells out how kids can stay safe and healthy in their home, school, neighborhood, as well as from strangers (grades 2-5).
Vocab Lab
Reading comes to life in these 24 units of Vocab Lab! With a little energy and the right ingredients—including the newspaper—parents can transform non-readers into readers.
We the Jury
Students discover the purpose of a jury, when they can serve on a jury, and how a jury works (4 units).
TABS - PRIMARY & ELEMENTARY GRADES K-5
Alphabet Safari II
Uses African animals to teach the alphabet A-Z with coloring-book graphics (grades K-2)
It Takes Skills
Kids learn about work habits and study skills and learn how easy it is to be a better student (grades 3-5).
Math With Sam
Young readers will discover the real-life uses for math by following a girl through her busy day (grades 3-5).
Oceans of Fun
Helps students understand the wonders of the deep—without even getting wet (grades K-3).
Playing it Safe
Helps students learn do’s & don’ts of personal safety in a fun, entertaining format (grades K-3).
Read Well, Write Well
A reading and writing activity guide for use with the newspaper. Features an original story by the authors of the Bailey School Kids series (grades 3-6)
Unique You Layout
Stresses the importance of character development, cooperation, fairness, honesty, respect and other traits (grades 3-5).
When I Grow Up
Explores the world of work and all the possibilities it holds (grades K-3).
Your Neighborhood
Students learn more about their neighborhood — and the newspaper, — while taking their new alien friends, Nars & Lars, on a tour through the library, the grocery store and other places (grades 2-4).
TABS – INTERMEDIATE & SECONDARY – GRADES 4-12
Against the Odds
Focus on African-American inventors and the challenges they faced.
Are There Any Volunteers?
Offers a down-to-earth look at volunteering and why it’s so important.
Banking: How Money Works
Covers all aspects of banks: how they started, what services they provide, saving & checking accounts, credit and other topics.
Breaking New Ground
Most of us don’t give a second thought about where our food comes from, but agriculture has a huge impact on our lives and the lives of millions of people around the world.
Careers: Piecing Together Your Future
This section introduces students to the world of work and shows them the options they have for life after school.
Careers in Health
A guide to prepare students for a variety of jobs in medicine: nursing, optometry, pharmacy or allied health.
Changing Face of America
Focuses on America’s minority groups and the contribution they make to our society.
Chemistry: Essential to Life
This supplement helps connect the science of chemistry with the practical world we live in and how it affects our daily lives.
Choices: Making Smart Decisions About Your Health & Safety
Teens learn up-to-date information about drugs, alcohol and tobacco; health, exercise & emotional well-being; and leadership & relationships.
Cool It!: The Good, The Bad And What You Can Do About Global Warming
Helps students understand global warming and what steps they can take to make a difference.
Count on Character
Students discover that good citizenship begins with respect, honesty, kindness and overall good character.
Extra! Extra!: A Current Events Workbook
Filled with activities designed to connect current events in the newspaper with subject content across the curriculum.
Fitness Head to Toe
Using this guide and the newspaper, students learn how exercise, nutrition and lifestyle choices affect them head to toe.
Food for Thought
This section offers a fun approach to the study of nutrition as wells as social, economic and cultural connections to food.
From the Ground Up: Agriculture in America
Explore the history, science, technology and variety of American farm products.
Get Plugged In: Learn About Technology in Your Life
Here’s a section that brings everybody up to speed on recent advances in technology.
Girls Can Lead the Way
Girls discover what it takes to be a leader, increase self-confidence and be smart about money.
Have the Time of Your Life: Celebrate Responsibly
Facts and activities designed to make teenagers think before they drink.
Hispanic Heritage
This supplement is designed to expose students to the Hispanic culture and help them explore diversity, geography and the Spanish language.
I Know! I read it in the newspaper!
An excellent resource introducing students to the newspaper.
It’s All About You
By helping students develop a better understanding of self, this section can help students better deal with people and choices.
It’s Your Right: A history of the Bill of Rights
Students will learn about the history of the Bill of Rights and how role those rights play in our life today.
It’s Your Government
The section will help students understand and get involved in the political process, from voting to how a bill becomes law.
Life is Expensive!: Discovering the Real Cost of Living
Helps young people realize the importance of financial planning for life’s decisions in a fun and engaging way.
Life Skills
This bilingual English/Spanish resource covers life’s basic skills of finance, health, communications, education, consumerism and nutrition.
Life's Basics (four 8-page sections): Get a Job, Lets Talk, Saving Savvy, Wise Buys
A series of four 8-page sections introducing students to fundamental life skills, communication, getting a job, managing money, and others — that will affect their day-to-day lives.
Making the News: The story behind the newspaper
From the story idea to your front door: It’s all covered.
Math Rules!: Bringing Numbers to Life
Uses the newspaper to teach everyday math skills, and bring math to life.
Meet Me at the Mall
Consumer economics and financial literacy explored in a kids favorite hangout — the mall!
On Course for College
Everything a high student needs to know about preparing for college is included in this section — even a freshman-to-senior planning guide spread sheet.
Our Changing World: Keep Up
Helps students discover the world around them and shows them how to keep up with all the changes.
Pathways to a Drug-Free Life
This section helps students understand the consequences of drug use and to think about more positive actions.
Patriotism
A look at patriotism in America — past and present.
Pride in Color: A Celebration of African-American Heritage
Takes a look at the history and cultural contributions of African-Americans and explores where African-Americans have been and how far they have come.
Science Fairs: The Method Behind the Madness
Even the brightest kids can struggle with the process of scientific inquiry and preparing for science fairs. This study guide will help that process.
Skillfully Done: School, Work, Money, Life
Students learn about taking the right steps toward planning their future including setting goals and developing a plan to reach them.
Staying Healthy: A Guide to Life Choices
Features information on nutrition, exercise, drug use & abuse, self-esteem, and other topics.
Talkin’ Trash
Explains how garbage is dealt with, the social and environmental issues surrounding disposal and what kids can do in their homes or classrooms to help develop an environmentally friendly future.
Teen Drinking: Too Much, Too Soon…Too Risky
This important supplement helps students understand the effects of alcohol, what it does to their bodies and brains, why they may be tempted to try it, the dangers alcohol poses to their health & safety, and how they can say no.
The Power of You
Teenagers need to know: Don’t underestimate yourself. They have the power to change almost anything — their school, town, state, country or even the world.
The Stock Market: What’s All The Shouting About?
Helps students understand the Stock Market and give them a chance to “invest” I their own financial future.
Today’s Newspaper, Tomorrow’s Art
Art is everywhere in the newspaper, from the layout to photographs and charts. And you can also make art from the newspaper itself from origami to papier-mâché.
Understanding Drugs: Better Choices, Better Lives
A no-holds-barred look at the subject of drugs, and how to make better choices.
Understanding the World of Weather
Students learn about weather and its effects while keeping track through daily newspaper reports and maps.
What’s in a Word?
Word origins, meanings, spelling and other word play has never been so exciting!
What’s Up With Gravity?: A Look at the Mysterious Force and Its Hold on Our Lives
This section will helps students understand that almost everything that happens here, and beyond, is in some way connected to gravity.
You Gotta Have Art
Discusses art and artists through the ages and learning about ones own tastes in art.
Your Passport to the World
Travel the globe and learn about fascinating regions of the world using this section and the newspaper. |
