Guiding+Activity+4

Activity Timeline:
(About two weeks depending on foreign student's responses)

Essential Questions:
- How does news/media coverage differ around the world? Is it more positive/negative/same as American news? - What can we do, as a class, to promote positive media coverage in our community?

Directions:
(Small Groups) - Students consider the information they have received from their Epals and determine whether foreign countries have positive or negative news. Why is the news different or the same as in America? How can we, as a class, begin to promote positive news stories in the community?

- Students get into small groups and begin to share what they have found from their interviews with the Epals. As a whole, they decide if other countries are sharing a larger number of positive news stories than America.

- The students begin to conduct research in their school and town to find programs that work towards improving their communities.

- Students brainstorm as to how and why these programs improve the society around them.

(As a whole class)

- The class gets together and shares different programs and news stories they have found throughout their community.

- They begin to share ideas as to how they can share the stories with the community.