NIE Special Report

Whether its from the simple desire to help others, our environment, or our way of life, innovation is a process that begins with imagination and results in the creation of something of value for society. NBC Learn, in collaboration with the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the National Science Teachers Association, explores the process of innovations in this compelling 11-week video series.

►View this weeks video : 3-D Printing

Complete Sixth Grade
Sustainability Curriculum

Publix Super Markets, Inc. has joined efforts with FPES (Florida Press Educational Services) to bring this program to sixth grade students. This FREE NIE Program will show your sixth grade students how to become responsible members of the planet, and to respect all of the resources that it has to offer.

Downloads:

►Flip Chart for Interactive White Boards
Note: Only classrooms with white boards will be able to run this file.

►Complete supplement as PDF

►Teachers Guide

Lesson plans for use with the e-Edition on Interactive White Boards

Included are basic lessons for an Elementary, Middle and Secondary classroom that can be utilized to introduce Language Arts and Social Studies activities.

►Middle School Social Studies Lesson Plan
►Middle and High School Language Arts Lesson Plan
►High School Social Studies Lesson Plan
►Elementary Social Studies Lesson Plan
►Elementary and Middle School Language Arts Lesson Plan

USA Weekend Teacher Guides

New Teacher's Guides are available every Monday, complete with monthly themes highlighted in a weekly lesson and a monthly activity sheet.

►Click here to download guides from USA Weekend

1. The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence and time period.

► oppose

► influence

► frequency

► zeal

2. Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion

► tactic

► banish

► habitation

► repugnant

3. Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.

► aplomb

► defiance

► furtive

► ember

4. Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts

► various

► muster

► cause

► adversary

5. Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.

► adversary

► ensure

► topic

► quell