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Newspapers in Education provides teachers with newspaper e-editions and useful, interesting, and innovative curriculum to enhance learning and help students meet the challenges of the future. Teachers receive newspaper e-editions and curriculum at no cost to them thanks to the support of the community and local business sponsors.
Why is covid-19 exploding again?
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►Ireland responds quickly to save a beloved zoo
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
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Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
The Green Room: Conservation for the Classroom offers lessons from the National Wildlife Federation to educate and inspire people to protect wildlife and wildlife habitat
Definition: Marked by a sharp division, as of a population or group, into opposing factions.
NASA's Space Place is a monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students►View this Month's lesson
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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.
New materials on vaccines and immunizations will be coming soon but first We Engage 4 Health is asking we help them by taking part in phase 2 of their "Power of Stories" research project to help them bring the most effective informational format to the classroom.
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.
NASA's Night Sky Network
A monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students (Updated Monthly)
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Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
►Ireland responds quickly to save a beloved zoo
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
►Archive of Geography quizzes
►New era: Private U.S. rocket and capsule propel 4 astronauts to space station
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►Why is covid-19 exploding again?
►Archive of past lessons
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Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
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.
This week's word in the news: POLARIZED
DEFINITION:
Marked by a sharp division, as of a population or group, into opposing factions.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Well, maybe not quite that many, but the numbers have been trending upward in recent years as legislators and large blocs of voters are struggling to find their place in an increasingly polarized political environment.
►The Minneapolis Star Tribune -- 11/23/2020
Teacher Resources
►Early Florida 1880-1903 Slide Show
►Elementary and middle school language arts lesson plan
►Elementary social studies lesson plan
►Middle school social studies lesson plan
►Middle and highschool language arts lesson plan
►High school social studies lesson plan
►Holocaust timeline
►Holocaust timeline lesson
►Interactive whiteboards
►Spanish Colonial St. Augustine: a Resource for Teachers
►Frontier wagon trains
►Slideshow: Photos of civil rights protests in St. Augustine in 1964
►Instructional Resources for Teachers
►Wildfire Information