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Brazil debates girl's role in Carnival

Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.

Archive of Geography quizzes


Can Fast-Food Diet help you lose weight?

Discussion prompts & video archive.

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Download a lesson based on political cartoons and print it out for use in your classroom. (PDF format)

This week's lesson: Tooning into History: McCarthyism at 60

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Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.



Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:


Winter Olympics showcase skills, speed on snow and ice

-- Front Page Talking Points Archive


THIS WEEK'S WORD IN THE NEWS 

SYMBIOTIC

DEFINITION:
A mutually beneficial relationship between different people or groups.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The Lead Draw represented the perfect symbiotic relationship between a play and a player and a player and an offensive scheme.
Dallas Morning News -- 02/08/2010

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