Announcements for Apr 19, 2021
Advantages of the classroom eJournal!
Your students live in a digital world. The eJournal of The Albuquerque Journal is an excellent interactive tool that helps you and your students meet technology and core curriculum learning objectives.
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How well do you keep up with the world around you? Take this week’s quiz to test your knowledge of recent national and world events.
NASA's Night Sky Network
A monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students (Updated Monthly)
Online Extras (Updated every Monday)
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
►Russia masses troops and tanks on its border with Ukraine
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
►Archive of Geography quizzes
►Covid safety concerns may delay or cancel Summer Olympics in Japan
-- Front Page Talking Points Archive
The National Wildlife Federation lesson plans are designed to introduce students to life science, ecology, wildlife biology, scientific identification and observation. All lesson plans are aligned to the National Science Education Standards and organized by grade level.
►Should CEOs shut up, but pay up?
►Archive of past lessons
►Teacher comments
Daily Science Webcasts
Daily Science Audio webcasts: An exclusive partnership with Pulse of the Planet, updated daily with two-minute sound portraits of Planet Earth. Tracking the rhythms of nature, culture and science worldwide, blending interviews with extraordinary natural sounds.
Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
Kid Scoop is a multi-media education program that brings interactive educational pages, games, comprehension, vocabulary, family involvement activities and more!
This week's word in the news: BEWILDERED
DEFINITION:
Deeply or utterly confused or perplexed.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Even the agency’s top official is bewildered by how Piney Point was ever allowed to become a dump site run by an inexperienced private company.
►The Tampa Bay Times -- 04/19/2021
