Educational Features
North Carolina Press Foundation provides content for young readers. Background knowledge related to current issues comes from multiple sources, including newspapers that archive stories, local, state and national museums, libraries and government agencies that digitize news and information.
NC NIE collaborations produced the following features for use in classrooms:
Five features below provide background on the historic court decision, Brown v. Board of Education—Thanks to the Levine Museum of the New South, Charlotte, N.C. and Tom Hanchett, author and historian, for assistance.
- The Lawyer and the Judge
- If They’d Given Us a Bus
- Paying the Price for Freedom
- The Five Cases Behind America’s ‘Case of the Century’
- Teens Helped Lead the Fight that Ended Segregation
A Variety of Topics in the News
- A Character Moves
- A Community Treasure
- A Place to Visit
- About Me
- An Appealing Movie
- Animals in Stories
- Appealing to All!
- Be the Best
- Blackbeard's Treasure
- Build a Dream Team
- Build a Home
- Build a Neighborhood
- Building Character
- Buildings
- Buried Treasure
- Calling for Human Interest
- Celebrate
- Clues about You
- Come Here!
- Come to a Party!
- Compound Words
- Content of Character
- Create a Story
- Culture
- Dare to Dream
- Dig Deeper
- Dig It
- Expedition
- Experience Art and Music
- Explore Water
- Express Yourself
- Fame and Pets
- Families Make News
- Feasting
- Foods and Festivals
- Furnish Your Room
- Gardening
- Global Citizenship
- Go Places
- Guess what happens
- Hear the Sounds
- How's the Weather?
- Illustrate an Ad
- Issues about Animals
- Knowing Your Community
- Learn about Places to Live
- Library Card
- Live the Dream
- Look for the Arts
- Lost Pets
- Make a Fashion Statement
- Many People
- Many Squares, One Community
- Many Voices, One Community
- Marking Trails
- Mascot
- Multiple Meanings
- My Home, My Castle
- My Quilt
- Naming a Team
- Nose for News
- Passport to the World
- Personification
- Places Along the Water
- Play with Words
- Puppets Talk
- Puzzles
- Responsible Pet Owner
- Roots and Branches
- Same Sounds
- Sand and Sea
- Search for Compounds
- Senses
- Set Goals
- Similes
- Someone's Story
- Sound and Meaning
- Sources of Water
- Sports Data
- Stage a Comic
- The Language of Sports
- Ticket to Travel
- Travel Challenges
- Travelogues
- Unusual Meanings
- Verbs-the Action Words
- Water in the News
- Water's Essential
- Weather Data
- What's the thought?
- What's the Water Problem?
- Writing a Storyboard
- What Makes a Good Movie?
- What's Local?
- Where Foods Grow
- Who Creates Art?
- Word Search
- Words that Count
- Your Community's Culture
- Your Town
Thanks to Crystal Willis for designing the features.
The U.S. Constitution and Election Bill of Rights quiz (black and white) and Bill of Rights quiz (color)–Thanks to the Fayetteville Observer for assistance. Saluting the Constitution (for print), and Saluting the Constitution (screen version), an informative series with student activities that include details about North Carolina’s ratification of the U.S. Constitution—Thanks to Mike Peterson and the Fayetteville Observer for assistance. US Postage Stamps, a nine-part series on constitutional issues—Thanks to the Outer Banks Sentinel for making available columns written by the late Jack Dempsey. Citizens Together (a five-part series on the Bill of Rights)–Thanks to Mary Miller, NYNPA for designing the educational features.
Fuel the Fire
NC Newspapers in Education produced thirteen (13) features on the theme, Fuel the Fire!, in 2014. Even though the features were released to support summer reading, they can be used anytime.
The thirteen (13) features are offered below.
For information related to famous fires in NC and other NC-related topics, search newspapers' archives and the site for the North Carolina's Department of Cultural Resources: http://www.ncdcr.gov/.
Credits: Sandra Cook, NCPF, NC NIE wrote the features, Fuel the Fire!; Crystal Willis, Production Manager, Carteret County News-Times, Morehead City, NC designed the features; and Aleah Howell, UNC-CH student designed the logo.
Send inquiries to nie@ncpress.com.
Prepared April 2, 2014