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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.

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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


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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: Disasters put focus on regulations

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



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Daily Science Webcasts


Will We Colonize Mars?

The Apollo astronauts reported seeing strange flashes of light, a clue that high levels of radiation could effect futue space flight and colonies.
Play Audio
-- May 20, 2013



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


Federal safety board urges tougher drinking-and-driving cutoff limit to match other nations

-- Front Page Talking Points Archive


May is Garden for Wildlife Month!
Plant a Schoolyard Garden at Your School

To help reconnect today's children to the outdoors, National Wildlife Federation assists schools in developing outdoor classrooms called Schoolyard Habitats®, where educators and students learn how to attract and support local wildlife.

These wildlife habitats become places where students not only learn about wildlife species and ecosystems, but also outdoor classrooms where they hone their academic skills and nurture their innate curiosity and creativity.

Click here to view the lessons


Google Glass Causing Congressional Privacy Concerns

Discussion prompts & video archive.


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



Mayan pyramid destroyed in Belize

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

Archive of Geography quizzes

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



This week's word in the news: INITIATE

DEFINITION:
To set going by taking the first step; begin.


FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Troopers initiated a pursuit of the vehicle at the rest area on Interstate 71 just north of the Ohio 123 exit east of Lebanon, troopers said.
The Dayton Daily News -- 05/20/2013