As a social studies and language arts teacher, I always did a current event activity with my students. At first, I would have them choose an article each week, summarize it for the class, and ask the class a question. BORING.
Now - I use Bloom's Taxonomy to up the higher level thinking, get the class involved, and make the overall presentation more interesting.
This activity has students choose a current event, then develop 6 mini-activities to lead their classmates in (one activity for each