<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div>Greetings all,</div><div><br></div><div>The Oregon Digital Newspaper Program (ODNP), based at the University of Oregon Libraries, just released several lesson plans geared toward grades 4 and 6-8 for using digitized historic newspapers in the classroom to meet Oregon common core standards for ELA and Social Sciences. The plans can be adapted to any grade level. The lesson plans and additional resources are accessible through our blog’s K-12 resources page: <a href="http://odnp.uoregon.edu/k-12-resources/">http://odnp.uoregon.edu/k-12-resources/</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>Blog announcing the new lesson plans: <a href="http://odnp.uoregon.edu/2015/06/19/k-12-common-core-lesson-plans-now-available/">http://odnp.uoregon.edu/2015/06/19/k-12-common-core-lesson-plans-now-available/</a></div><div><br></div><div>The ODNP has been digitizing historic Oregon newspapers since 2009, making them keyword searchable and freely available to the public online at <a href="http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/">http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu</a>. We have digitized over 700,000 pages so far, all of which are excellent primary source materials that can be used to bolster almost any K-12 lesson, perfect for meeting common core standards in the classroom.</div><div><br></div><div>Please share this great news with other interested parties, and feel free to contact me with any questions, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks!</div><div>Sheila</div><div><br></div><div><div>Sheila Rabun</div><div>Digital Project Manager, Digital Scholarship Center</div><div>University of Oregon Libraries</div><div>Eugene, Oregon</div><div>541-346-1859</div><div><a href="mailto:srabun@uoregon.edu">srabun@uoregon.edu</a> </div></div></div><br></body></html>