Welcome to The News-Star's Newspaper in Education site!

Add The News-Star to your classroom curriculum! Our Newspaper in Education web site will enrich your existing lessons, enliven classroom discussions and develop lifelong reading habits for your students.

The News-Star is your local news source, offering daily updates on the relevant information you and your students need to understand our rapidly changing world. Our coverage of local, state, and federal governments helps young people see how the democratic process affects them on a personal level. We provide students with the thought-provoking materials that inform, inspire and move them to participate in the world around them.

Through our NIE website, you can enjoy our database of newspaper-based Lesson Plans for grades K-4, 5-8, and 9-12, offered free to the educational community, as well as our weekly Geography-in-the-News lesson, "This Week in History" and "Front Page Talking Points."

In these activities, students are encouraged to discuss, engage and relate the news to their own lives. The lesson plans tie current events to lessons of history, government and sciences, sending students into the articles and regular features of the printed or online newspapers. Our lesson plans, customized by grade level, are updated every Monday.

Electronic edition newspapers are available daily by teacher request. Contact Hugh Posey, hposey@monroe.gannett.com, to sign up today!

Online Extras (Updated every Monday)

Resources to help you put The News Star to work in your classroom

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

This week's lesson: When it gets close, politics gets rough

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►There are more than 180 lessons archived for your use

Audio

Daily Science Webcasts

Thaipusam - Story of Lord Murugan

The holiday of Thaipusam celebrates the victory of the Hindu god Murugan over a human devotee with a bad case of over- ambition.

►Listen here!

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

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

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

►Get This Week in History

►Enhance vocabulary and written/verbal skills with over 2,500 pages of puzzles, themed features, word lists, SAT, ACT test prep and word games.

Created by:
Jan and Carey Cook

NIE Special Report

In celebration of Black History Month, we complied a selection of videos from NBC Learn's 'Finishing the Dream' to use as an aid to teach the struggles and celebrate the triumphs of the Civil Rights movement over the span of 60 years. 'Finishing the Dream' is a project by NBC Learn, the educational arm of NBC News, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation

►View This Week's New Video!

This week's word in the news: COUNTERVAILING
DEFINITION: Acting against with equal force. Exerting force against an opposing and often bad or harmful force or influence.	FOUND IN THE NEWS: The announcement came after the Government Accountability Board faced countervailing pressures from those who urged that the petitions be made readily available and from those who raised concerns about the safety of domestic abuse victims who wanted to keep their addresses confidential. ►Milwaukee Journal Sentinel -- 02/06/2012