The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 40

Tuesday March 3 1987 THE FRESNO BEE Imaginative teachers find many ways to help students the i ports winAoss Exp team or left-handedness where it is not clearly indicated Cite specific clues that helped you make your decision 9 Redo the index from the newspaper using totally new words that could be easily understood by an eight-year-old Then do the same using words for a college student 10 Rewrite a news story from the perspective of 20 years ago or 20 years from now 11 Take a set of statistics from you used to help you make your decision 6 Read the obituaries and determine the percentage of men and women listed List several factors that might change a 5050 death statistic 7 Study a comic strip and determine the age of the children and adults in the strip according to their actions speech and physical characteristics 8 Examine newspaper pictures or comic strips to determine right finding th fomi 12 Fine discusses problem problem faced by i 13 Sele To the teacher: Here are some innovative ideas for helping students develop critical thinking by using the newspaper 1 Be able to support or disagree with this statement: The entertainment section of the newspaper reflects American values 2 Match four weather maps taken from four different dates throughout the year with their correct seasons 3 Read an article about a scientific discovery invention or technological improvement and describe what possible good and bad effects may be felt in society because of it 4 Select any object from a display ad in the newspaper Try to describe that object to someone who has never seen it before 5 Try to determine the age and sex of tne person who is writing to Ann Landers or Dear Abby in paper Cite specific clues photos fre you could page storj Reprinted with permission from Synthesize by Eleanor Villalpando copyright 1984 by Kathy Kolbe Concept Inc POB 15050 Phoenix Arizona 85060 Flow chart can help to organize Here is a recipe for a delicious lemon pie that might appear in the food section of the newspaper one problem The steps for preparing the pie are not in the right order! Information must be organized if you are to think about it clearly One way to organize information in a step-by-step manner is to create a flow chart Flow charts contain instructions on how to do something One box contains each step The arrows between the boxes show the logical order of the steps Fit the lemon pie recipe into the flow chart provided here filling in the steps in the right order Then on a separate sheet of paper try creating a flow chart on your own Here are some topics to choose from: Making a 'peanut butter and jelly sandwich Brushing your teeth Walking the dog Studying for a test Set aside to cMIfor 45 minutes Put IK cup graham erackar crumb! in bowl Skct aai antov1 Braakagg into bowl and beat Spread Wing inchiRed pia cruft.