Especially for Teachers

Bright Ideas Lesson Plans

For use by teachers and parents at school and at home

In cooperation with the Volusia County Reading Council, the NIE program sponsors a contest to solicit from teachers best practices using the newspaper. Elementary, middle, high school and exceptional education teachers annually enter the Bright Ideas contest. Winning teachers receive classroom subscriptions to The News-Journal, a year's membership in the Reading Council, and lots of other goodies including a celebration dinner in their honor.

For the 16th year, The Daytona Beach News-Journal's Newspaper in Education (NIE) Program and the Volusia County Reading Council (VCRC) have sponsored a Bright Ideas Contest to recognize creative and successful ideas for integrating newspaper use into the curriculum.

2008 WINNERS

Back row (L-R): Kim Whitaker, John Navarra, Stephen McPherson, Robert Voges, Camilla Coalson. Middle row(L-R): Evelyn Medina, Justina Thomas-Smith, Elma Rood. First Row(L-R): Karen Brinson, Christine Brown-Basnet, Daphne Berish.	Back row (L-R): Becky Ling, Karen Potter, Rachel Goodnow, Myra Williams, Carole Prior. Middle row(L-R): Karen Haney, Jane Peters, Pollidia Hougham. Front row(L-R): Kasey Lamb, Susan Van Engen, Tina Howard, Kari Nagus.
Other Winners not pictured: Lisa Hess, Donald D'Orto, Diana Sulzbach, Rhonda Adams, Julie Mitchell, Sandra Telemac, Sarah Altier, Debra Woody.

Below are some Bright Ideas organized by grade level.
Click here to visit the Bright Ideas winners by year.

K-1 Activities: First Grade First Grade Activity Food for Thought Learn a Letter and Sound Each Week Mystery Morgan Place Value Reading/Environmental Print Turning Sand into Pizza Word Detectives Word Wall Words	2-3 Activities: The ABCs of Comics Activities The Feeling Town Football Funnies Geography/Math/and Weather Page Getting "Center"ed Holiday Shopping Spree Letters to Winners Olympics-Spotting Oral Presentation Tear & Rip Where in the World?
4-5 Activities: A 6 Week's Review with the N-J Across the Curriculum Current Events Team Bowl Quiz Current Events-Word Jar Everyday Activities FCAT for All Making Real-World Connections On The Road To FCAT Gold Potpourri Read to Write Select and Review Word Shapes and Alphabet Poetry	6-8 Activities: Candidates and Primaries in Focus Current Events Front Pages, Editorials and Ads Journal Jeopardy Literacy Terms Newspaper Notebook The POWER of Advertising Puzzle Fiction Reading to Residents Stamps & Writing the N-J as a springboard Stump the Class Target Date
9-12 Activities: Crisis in the Sudan English, Inc. Health Life Management Skills History Past to Present The Holocaust Hunt for Read October Know Your Newspaper Read, Think and Vote Reality Math "Station"ary Ideas Stump the Panel The Victorian Salon Experience: Poetry in the News! Parent-Elementary: Did You Read About That? Parent-Secondary Activities: When am I ever going to use this in the real world?	ESE Activities: A Potpourri of Activities Delivery Service Doing What Everyone Else Can Do ESE Wizards Exciting Extra Credit Getting the Message Imaginary Obituaries Language Arts Let's Get Organized Multi-VE Projects News Lit Express News on My Mind and News Is My Life: “My Anewsing Life” News Safari Newspapers Are a Necessity for Life Newsworthy Reference Book Nightly News Wrap-Up Pun Intended: Exploring the Play in Words Student Bodies Wacky Tacky News
Schaefer Special Twist Activities: A Kid's Week in Review A Potpourri of Activities Adopt-a-Columnist All Purpose Uno An African Connection Around the World in 30 Days Audio Broadcast Bagging "Endangered" Species The Blazing Mouse & Other Activities Books in "News" Print Breaking the Ice C.R.I.S.S. Strategies Café FAME Career Search Cartoons and Onomatopoeia & Cartoon Characters for President Character Traits Plates The Chocolate Touch Civil War Newspapers Class Update Newspaper Comic Crime Scenes Computer Applications in Business 2 The Connecticut Connection Consistency Constitution Day Creating a Wrinkle in Time Critical Thinking Current Events-Parents Double Trouble Driving Home the Point The ESOL News Journal Economic Regions in the News Election 2004 "Endangered" Encounters Everglades Animals Family Geography Challenge Family Involvement Using the Newspaper Far Away Places FCAT Reading Prep Feeding Their Imaginations Florida Front Page History The Food News Report Foreign Language 1 Foreign Language 2 For the Record 4th Grade Perspective Club From Amid to American Idol Garage Sales Readers Get A Life Getting the Most out of the Mini Page Good Citizens in the News Good Guys - Bad Guys Good Sportsmathship Grammar Search Grandparents Day Hats I Want My DADA Identifing phrases Impact of a Photograph The Internet Connection It's in the Baghdad & CNI - Criminal News Investigators Keys to the City Learning Centers Learning to Be Stewards Lessons from China Let It Rip	Let's Make a "DATE" Macbeth and Unnatural Things Collages Making the Grade with FCAT Making Sense in Social Studies Magnetic Poetry The Marine Science Connection Math The Memorable 'News-Journal' Mini Me The Mini Page & Mini Math Mystery Mother Goose and Teacher for Sale A News-Journal Journey: Passport to Reading Success News & Names in the Newspaper The News as Science Experiments The News on iPod Newsletter Newspaper Days Newspaper Delivery Service on Campus Newspaper Jeopardy Newspaper Makes the "Perfect Bonnet" Newspaper Scrabble Newspaper Story Books Newspaper Vocabulary Graffiti Olympic Reading Organize an Environmental Education Forum Paper and Poetry Parental Involvement Personal Ads Personal News-Journals on Video Picture This Pigs Will Be Pigs: Fun with Math Photo/Story Starters Presidential Candidate Speech Propaganda Techniques Questioning the Mini Page Read Across America Ready, Set, Go Re-Use the News Rhetorical Devices Riddles-Read-Write-Think Sacagawea & Act of Kindness Save Darfur, Again Scavenger Hunt Scientific Scavengers (In Print & Online) Self-Correcting Coupons Senior High Coffee Klatch SMARTGIRLS! Snowmen So, What Are You Doing this Weekend? State Standards Tie-Ins Student-to-Student Connection Substitute Plans Super Bowl Math & Stock Market Fractions Symbolism in Literature Technology in the Real World Tie-Ins Total Integrated Curriculum Understanding Character Using the Obits WAG Wall of News Weeks "H", "N," & "W" Writing Poetry from the News…Look beyond the Facts Writing Webs You, Too, Can be a Star!

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