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NIEonline.com: Serving Newspapers in Education

Providing content and web services
for Newspaper in Education programs


Teachers: For more classroom resources make sure you contact your LOCAL NEWSPAPER

Sample the NIEonline.com content modules below


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Kenya celebrates its new constitution

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

Archive of Geography quizzes

Debate over Islamic mosque near ground zero shows sensitivity of words

-- Front Page Talking Points Archive


Words in the News

Interactive vocabulary quiz based on stories found in your newspaper.

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Lesson Plans Categorized by Grade Level

Let your teachers tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:

Elementary (Grades K-4)
Middle (Grades 5-8)
Secondary (Grades 9-12)

Educational links library

A library of links to resources for teachers is maintained for you. Links are classified according to grade levels and descriptions are included.

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Middle School Quiz
Words in the News

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
Then see if you can find the word in your newspaper -- the print edition, the website or the digital edition and copy the sentence for context. NOTE: High School words are much harder to find!


1. A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

Delegate
Technique
Labyrinth
Wretched


2. A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

Labyrinth
Wretched
Commemorate
Toxin


3. To condescend to give or grant

Accentuate
Virtuoso
Deign
Phloem


4. To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

Suffrage
Impertinent
Undulate
Ozone


5. Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

Vaccine
Boycott
Exponent
Unanimous


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THIS WEEK'S WORD IN THE NEWS 

TUMULTUOUS

DEFINITION:
Noisy and disorderly.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
That whole process was a little bit tumultuous as it unfolded day to day. But the application itself and some of the proposals were truly something that would be very progressive.
NJ.com, 08/30/2010

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