Newseum+-+Greg+Cohen

=**INTRODUCTION: **= =Newseum is a Web 2.0 site that allows students to browse current events from all over the world. Beside the featured articles, students can look up the front page of any newspaper, recall millions of archived articles, and explore events as they unfolded through video, newspaper, or editorial. Admission is free and there is a "Education" tab that includes resources for teachers and students. =

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**Suggested High School Lesson Plans**

 [|What News is Where?/The Medium Shapes the Message]

In this activity, your class gathers an array of news media from a single day. Then the students analyze the collection to discover how and why the choice of medium can shape the information presented.  [|Today's Front Pages] (//Teacher Note: This lesson is for grades 6–12.//)

Using the Newseum’s online Today's Front Pages collection, students can compare and analyze coverage of and attitudes toward national news, local news, weather, politics and culture. Students can compare and contrast styles of layout, graphics and photography, as well as news judgment employed by different newspapers. > Related online resources:

> - [|Today's Front Pages exhibit]

> - [|The Front Page poster]

> - [|Stories of the Century exhibit] //Headlines of History//

 [|From the Headlines to the History Books: News as the "First Rough Draft of History"]

Students compare and contrast front page news coverage of a major event. By looking at sources, students gain a hands-on understanding of how news becomes history, then they project what changes in information and coverage might occur over time for a current issue.  [|The First Amendment and Social Change: MLK's Letter from Birmingham Jail]

Students read Martin Luther King's famous Letter from Birmingham Jail and examine his argument in light of the rights guaranteed by the First Amendment. //The First Amendment//

 [|Would You Fight for All Five?: Weighing Our First Amendment Freedoms]

Students explore the interplay between the five First Amendment freedoms, then play an elimination game as a class to determine which freedom their group believes is the most important.  [|Taking Exception: Modern First Amendment Rights Issues]

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Students read about modern First Amendment court cases. They then take a position and argue the case.