This teaching kit includes two booklets, "Your Newspaper: An Exciting World at Your Fingertips" and "Teaching Aids for the Social Sciences." Several maps, a list of Copley films and filmstrips and order blanks, and a selection of current news service reports which are updated periodically. These materials are all designed to encourage the use of newspapers in the secondary social studies classroom. Suggestions are made as to how newspapers can be resource materials for social studies teachers and students. The importance of newspapers in reporting historical, political, and economic events is discussed. Approaches and activities utilizing newspapers are suggested, and listings for sources of materials related to newspapers are included. (AL)