 Lessons Using the Electronic
Edition and/or Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection (all require Acrobat Reader). These lessons were created by teachers who attended workshops presented by the Colorado Historic Newspaper project and Denver Post Educational Services. Lessons are organized by grade level within each topic.
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| Art | Careers | Civil
Liberties | Colorado History | Crime
| Culture & Society | ESL
| Health & Food | History
| Immigration | Information
Literacy | Literature | Mining
| Science, Technology and Water Rights | Transportation
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ART
- Inspired
by History --
Illustrating the Past Using Articles from Colorado’s Historical
Newspapers as Subject Matter ( Art, English, Media Literacy:
Grades 9-12 )
CAREERS
CIVIL LIBERTIES
COLORADO HISTORY
CRIME
CULTURE/SOCIETY
ENGLISH AS A SECOND
LANGUAGE
HEALTH/FOOD
HISTORY
IMMIGRATION
- Immigration
Then and Now (Language
Arts, Social Studies, Computers/ Technology: Grades 4-8)
- Immigration:
That
Was Then 1856-1923, This Is Now 2006
(Language Arts, History, Geography: Grades 5-8)
- Immigration
Lesson:
Whose Neighborhood Is It? Whose America Is This? (Security,
economics, legal, cultural, human rights issues: Grades 7-12)
INFORMATION
LITERACY
- Information
Literate Student:
Learning from Today's and Yesterday's Newspaper (Media
Literacy: Grades 5 - 12)
- Analyzing
Newspapers Past and Present & Creating a Modern Reproduction
of a Chosen Periodical from the Early 1900’s (Language
Arts, History: Grades 6 - 10)
- Have
Your Say: Examining Historical Perspectives and Community to write
Letters to the Editor (Language
Arts, American History: Grades 9-12)
LITERATURE
MINING
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY/WATER
RIGHTS
TRANSPORTATION
- Over
Land on the Overland: People
used many forms of transportation to come to Denver (Social
Studies, Grade 3)
- Transportation:
A View into the Future with a Look at the Past
(Upper Elementary/Middle School)
- Tracking
History: Colorado Trains 1900-1910 (American
History, Language Arts: Grades 4-12)
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