About This Lesson
Activities for the early grades (3-5) meet the following objectives:
•analyze a complex social problem, and
•identify solutions to such a problem.
Activities for the middle grades (6-8) and high school (9-12) meet the following objectives:
•read and understand a newspaper article;
•gather, organize and evaluate the relevance of data;
•analyze a complex social problem;
•identify and evaluate solutions to such a problem, and
•differentiate between fact and opinion
