For eight weeks, students researched, asked questions and wrote articles for the “Newspaper in School” project. We present successful stories from the fourth graders.
How do you recognize fake news and how can you check whether a message is trustworthy? Many people are confronted with this question every day. Children also often come across news that it is not immediately clear whether it is real – especially on social media like Instagram or Tiktok. In order to find your way in the digital world, a high level of media competence is important.
The “Newspaper in School” project, or Zisch for short, has set itself the task of doing exactly that: encouraging students to think critically, teaching them how to use media responsibly and showing them what serious media are and how they work. The students have had many questions about all of these topics in the past few weeks. And that’s a good thing: If you want to work as a journalist, you have to be curious, question everything and enjoy learning new things.
Research, ask, collect facts
The fourth graders prove that they can do this in the Zisch final supplement published today. Because they themselves traveled as Zisch reporters, researched, asked questions, collected facts and wrote lots of articles – in total, more than 300 of around 80 classes from the entire BZ distribution area arrived with us. A few of them have appeared on the Zisch site on Saturdays over the past eight weeks. Many more articles can now be read in the supplement, which appears in two editions with a total of 60 pages.
The children tried out various journalistic text forms: reports, short reports, comments and many interviews. There are also a few fantasy stories, recipes and poems included. The result is a varied supplement – sometimes with funny topics, sometimes more serious and often very creative. Have fun while reading.
A selection of eleven particularly successful articles by the students
- A man with a disability says: “I’m not sick, I’m disabled” – by Mila Malik, Heidi Flothmann, Alvin Sula, Marc Sedelmeier, Ivan Ciarmela, Leonard Muttenhammer, Annabela Schwanz, Betül Inan, Yaren Calkici, Amen Akakpo, Anna Griethe , Medina Fisek, Alessio Parasiliti, grade 4, Salzert primary school (Lörrach)
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