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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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Jackson, TN 38301
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Clarksville, TN 37040
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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: Romney 'takes credit' for auto recovery

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Daily Science Webcasts


Science Diary: Climate Change - Extinction?

Australia's white lemuroid possum may be the world's first mammal to go extinct via global warming.
Play Audio
-- May 23, 2012



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


Population turning point: Nonwhite parents account for more than half of recent U.S. births

-- Front Page Talking Points Archive



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

NIE Special Report


Science Behind the News

NBC Learn in partnership with the National Science Foundation explores the science, technology, engineering and math found in current events. The Science Behind the News series connects fundamental STEM topics to real world current news events.

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Romney Rejects Super PAC Ad Attacking Obama

Discussion prompts & video archive.

Courtesy of NBCLearn, News Video will feature video selections from the NBCLearn series Decision 2012 until the November Presidential election.



Quebec shuts some universities to curb student protests

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: SEDENTARY

DEFINITION:
Accustomed to sit or rest a great deal or to take little exercise.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Pets are getting fatter because of their increasingly sedentary lifestyles and they are being overfed, and more than one in seven cats and dogs in Ohio are now overweight or obese, according to a new report
Dayton Daily News -- 05/21/2012