This document provides 10 ideas for using daily newspapers in geography lessons, including displaying independent front pages, having students draft replies to letters, analyzing news stories for their spatial components, using advertisements as resources, and accessing online newspaper articles and websites to enhance lessons.

1. “ Have I got Geography for you...” 10 ideas for using a daily newspaper Alan Parkinson Secondary Curriculum Development Leader Geographical Association

2. 1. Independent Front Pages: display http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/frontpages/

3. 2. Have I got Headlines for you...

4. 3. Take a letter Miss Jones... An excellent resource is the LETTERS PAGE Draft a reply to a letter that has been provided, or produce a new letter. Geographical literacy / media literacy

5. 4. Insert Column here...

6. 5. The Sun: a quality paper...

7. 6. New(s) stories Newspapers sometimes have “news”: new stories which you haven’t come across before.

8. 7. Advertising Just as the adverts are often the best thing on the telly, the print advertising in newspapers can also be used as resources...

9. 8: Mapping the stories... 80% of all data has a spatial component. 100% of news stories have a spatial component: they happen SOMEWHERE.

10. 9: Online support... Daily newspapers have websites. Some hung out for longer than others, but all now realise that it is a way of supporting and enhancing the news in the printed document. It’s also very handy for geography teachers who want to catch an article that they missed.

11. 10. Stop Press.....