Creator: newspapermap.com | visit site
Grade Range: 4 - 11
Use this colorful map to locate and read newspapers from around the world. Click on map pins to locate newspapers or search using filters such as languages. Use the key to locate newspapers in each language. Yellow pins indicate English language newspapers, Spanish pink, etc. Don’t worry if newspapers are not in a language you need. Choose the links provided to translate into one of many options. When ready, click on a pin to go to the newspaper’s home website.
In the Classroom
Newspaper Map is a great resource for locating news and culture from around the world. Share with your students to show them different perspectives on world events. Use an online tool such as Interactive Two Circle Venn Diagram, reviewed here, to compare and contrast coverage between two newspapers. After reading and comparing many different articles, have students make a multimedia presentation using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools. Some tool suggestions are (click on the tool name to access the review): Adobe Spark in K-12, Synth, Animatron, Renderforest, and Beautiful.AI. Explore this site during Newspaper in Education week or as part of a unit on the basics of journalistic writing. World language teachers can use newspapers to teach about both language and culture. Have world cultures or social studies students learn about local culture through advertisements and articles and share their findings using a screencast (or screenshots) of the newspaper and talking about their discoveries. A free tool like Screencast-o-matic, reviewed here, or Screencastify (Chrome app), reviewed here, works well for screencasts.
At Home
Share this site with your student as a resource for finding information from all over the world and for reading news stories from different perspectives. Traveling to a specific part of the world? Read about current events in the area using this site. Even the advertisements are educational!
Tags
cross cultural understanding, newspapers, spanish, french, portuguese, german, russian, japanese, arabic, media literacy,
Subjects
Current Events, English, French, Geography (US/World), German, Government/Civics: U.S, History & Culture: Africa, History & Culture: Asia, History & Culture: China, History & Culture: Japan, History & Culture: Middle East, History & Culture: Russia, History & Culture: The Americas, History & Culture: World, Reading, Social Studies, Social Studies, Spanish, World Languages, World Languages,