Prime Minister in the news: media watch

In groups, or individually, students should do a web search of three major media outlets in Canada for two weeks using the Prime Minister’s name as the search term.

For each story they come across during the search, students should note the following:

• Date
• Headline
• Summary (two sentence maximum)

The teacher should then review the results with the class, using the findings from the "Summary" of each news story to develop a list of the issues with which the Prime Minister has been associated during the period of the students’ research.

The results of this introductory activity would be helpful in Activity 1 of the Activities that Extend New Learning.