Name of the project: Understanding the importance of a Newspaper
Time period: 4- 5 periods
Topics: a) Understanding the History of Newsprint around the world
- b) Concept of money and averages
- c) Understanding the day to news and how it gets converted into History
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the importance of media and the role they play in our day to day life
- Learns to relates to the feelings of editors and appreciation of the opinion and voice of the public and sensitivity towards relief rescue operations
| Name of the Learning Activity | Defining Specific Learning Objectives/ learning Outcomes | Describing Learning Outcomes | |
| Cognitive | Non Cognitive | ||
| English
i) Debate : Oldest print media vs Audio Visual Media ii) Newspaper reading EVS i) Makes a list of different newspaper which come at home and in school and important newspapers of the world ii) Collect news cutting related to some historical event in the history like some discovery of some artifacts in excavations site around the world General Awareness i)Collect quiz, scrabbles, crosswords from children’s corner, weather reports, stock market news
Hindi i)Samachar patra ii)Frame a news letter for your school mentioning about events of the school in one week Write a letter to the editor for a complaint Mathematics
Arts Select a topic of any incident collect pictures/ reports and prepare a collage |
1.Learn about different means of communication
2.Importance of these means 3.Knows about the different places and happenings around the world
1. Scan through the newspaper and understand the significance of different columns eg speaking tree, editorial column, city news, national, sports, business news
1.Learns new words in Hindi, Learns history of newspaper in various languages & its publishing 2.Role of a news reporter , editor etc 1. Learns to assimilate and collect information and write a report 2. Learns to express his/ her views
1. Learns to calculate Money and understands about the various currencies in world 2. Learns to make the monthly, yearly bills for the school and his household 1. Creates a collage |
5. Communication in terms of mass media. Brand awareness and professional career 6. Creativity 7. Problem Solving 8. Knowledge 9. Originality
10. Creativity 11. Exploration 12. Synthesis and connection of ideas |
1.Relates to the feelings of editors and appreciation of the opinion and voice of the public
2. Sensitivity towards relief rescue operations 3. Motivation( through great work done by people) 4. Confidence 5. Learns about team work 6. Co-operation 7. Peer Collaboration
8. Use of money
9. Appropriate color scheme, appreciation of visual art |