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Downloads for teachers
Teaching Character Education
If you are teaching Character Education, the Times has wonderful materials to support you. Free education supplements for your classroom include Dealing with Conflict, Its Good to Be a Good Person, Building Big Futures, and Boomerang Bully.
Click here to order these supplements.
Curriculum developed by the Pinellas County SDFS office is available for Boomerang Bully, a fictional serial story written by local teens based on the all-too-real existence of bullying. The story, which first appeared in the Times, is a springboard for discussion about respect and self-esteem and similar topics, and is reprinted with writing activities.
2008 Math & Science Curriculum Guide2008 Teacher's Guide2008 Maintain Your Brain
Hurricane Herald Activity guide
Student activity guide to coincide with the Hurricane Herald supplement is available here.
Designed to be used with the special section on World War II from the Times Sunday edition, August 28, 2005. If you do not have copies, you can use on-line version at www.sptimes.com/wwii
Two pages of activities that include: using context clues, identifying parts of speech, antonyms, synonyms and homonyms, writing summaries, identifying details and how to use information to construct meaning and make inferences.
A fun worksheet for students to use to create a ballad (or a rap song) that describes a story in the news.
Let students get creative with the weather by writing haikus inspired by the Weather Watch page.
Newspaper-based Reading Strategy Instruction: Developing the Fluency Skills of Students As They •Read All About It•
Five pages of activities that include: percentage, algebraic equations, geometry, calculating interest rates, metrics,
Soc. Stud. Quickie Lessons.pdf
Includes lessons on human rights, citizens responsibilities, local, national and international news and geography.
Social Studies and the News.pdf
Includes newspaper-based activities on investigative thinking, American government, political process, organization and powers of government, economic decisions in the market place, and structures and function of the U.S. Economy
Fun ideas using weather, maps, climates and more.
Lessons cover the subjects of technology, energy sources, wavelengths, simple machines, the environment, and medical discoveries.
Here are more great activities to sharpen students' skills in preparation for the Reading, Math and Science FCATs.