About This Lesson
If you're incorporating current events into your class, you probably want to have students discuss them. This resource is a list of CNN10 Discussion Questions that you can use to do just that.
The document itself is a printable poster that you can print out and mount on your classroom wall. You could also print it on a regular size piece of paper and put in students folders or binders for reference.
The list of questions is designed to be a generic set of questions that you could ask after any episode of CNN10. As a procedure, you might train the students to select a question that they would like to answer to begin the discussion. You could also use a randomizer of some kind to pick one of the questions. Although these are titled "Discussion Questions," you could use them as writing questions too, in which case they make good writing prompts to reflect on a given episode of CNN10.
However you use them, it's important to talk about current events. This is an important component of civics education, and it's a great tool if you're wondering how to teach government in a fun way. By constantly talking about current events, you can see how the things you learn in class - how governments function, how laws are made, how people wield power - play out in real life. They become less abstract and more real.
