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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.
Downloads:
►Flip Chart for Interactive White Boards
Note: Only classrooms with white boards will be able to run this file.
Contact Information
The Tennessean
Newspaper In Education
1100 Broadway
Nashville, TN 37203
615-259-8397 - phone
615-259-8083 - fax
nie@tennessean.com
The Jackson Sun
Newspaper In Education
245 W. Lafayette Street
Jackson, TN 38301
731-425-9721 - phone
731-425-9692 - fax
nie@jacksonsun.com
The Leaf-Chronicle
200 Commerce Street
Clarksville, TN 37040
615-259-8397 - phone
615-259-8083 - fax
azangri@gannett.com
The Daily News Journal
224 N. Walnut Street
Murfreesboro, TN 37130
615-259-8397 - phone
615-259-8083 - fax
nie@dnj.com
Additional resources
NIE Institute Educational Resources
As an NIE subscriber, you can access a wealth of free educational resources available through our membership in the national NIE Institute. All are appropriate for classroom instruction when used with either our electronic or print editions.
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Online Extras (Updated every Monday)
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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►There are more than 180 lessons archived for your use
Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
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.
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.
►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
