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Does the U.S. need a Space Force?
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►Ecuador declares emergency over Venezuelan migrants at its border
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: A natural or artificial place where water is collected and stored for use, especially water for supplying a community, irrigating land, furnishing power, etc.
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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The St. Augustine Record
Jeanette Bradley
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The Florida Times-Union
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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.
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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.
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Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
►Ecuador declares emergency over Venezuelan migrants at its border
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
►Archive of Geography quizzes
►Tributes to legendary singer Aretha Franklin praise the cultural impact of her half-century career
-- Front Page Talking Points Archive
►Does the U.S. need a Space Force?
►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
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This week's word in the news: RESERVOIR
DEFINITION:
A natural or artificial place where water is collected and stored for use, especially water for supplying a community, irrigating land, furnishing power, etc.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The Colorado River is so strained amid population growth and a climate shift to hotter, drier conditions that federal water managers may declare an unprecedented “shortage” and cut releases from reservoirs.
►The Denver Post -- 08/20/2018
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
►Terrorist lesson
►US Inst. of peace terrorism
►USIP terrorism paper lesson
►Spanish Colonial St. Augustine: a Resource for Teachers
►Frontier wagon trains
►Slideshow: Photos of civil rights protests in St. Augustine in 1964
►Sagaponack Books
►Instructional Resources for Teachers
►Games for K-4
►Wildfire Information
►POTUS: Presidents of the United States
►Civil Rights History