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The Florida Times-Union and The St. Augustine Record and your school!
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.
Do we only see what we want to see?
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Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
►Trump resumes peace talks with Taliban in Afghanistan
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
►Archive of Geography quizzes
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: Causing unhappiness or gloom: not warm or cheerful.
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.
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)
Downloadable Supplements
Online Extras (Updated every Monday)
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
►Trump resumes peace talks with Taliban in Afghanistan
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
►Archive of Geography quizzes
►Two new reports describe decline of local news coverage across U.S as a ‘crisis’
-- Front Page Talking Points Archive
►Do we only see what we want to see?
►Archive of past lessons
►Teacher comments
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: DREARY
DEFINITION:
Causing unhappiness or gloom: not warm or cheerful.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Forecasters were calling for a dreary Sunday with dense fog in northern parts of the state through noon and a mixture of rain and snow turning to mostly snow by the afternoon, with as much as an inch of accumulation possible.
►The Chicago Tribune -- 12/02/2019
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