Resources for Teachers and Students
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal in your school!
Make Kids Count is a program designed to utilize newspapers as instructional tools in the classroom: promoting literacy, intellectual growth, and exposure to current events. Newspapers like the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal collaborate with local schools and NIE to distribute teaching materials, newsletters, training materials, educational supplements, ideas for expanding curriculum, and more.
►U.S. launch this week is a big deal that strengthens NASA’s partnership with SpaceX, a private firm
Face masks about health or politics?
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Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
►Bay of Bengal spawns another deadly cyclone
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: Capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object. Tending to spread from person to person.
NASA's Space Place is a monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students►View this Month's lesson
Contact Information
Tammy Russum
806.766.8761
Tammy.Russum@Lubbockonline.com
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.
Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
Downloadable Supplements
Online Extras (Updated every Monday)
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.
Part of rancher John R. Erickson's Hank the Cowdog book series, this 12-week, chapter story follows Hank as he nudges bachelor cowboy Slim into asking Miss Viola to the dance––or maybe he'll just take Viola himself!
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
►Bay of Bengal spawns another deadly cyclone
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
►Archive of Geography quizzes
►U.S. launch this week is a big deal that strengthens NASA’s partnership with SpaceX, a private firm
-- Front Page Talking Points Archive
►Face masks about health or politics?
►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.
NASA's Night Sky Network
A monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students (Updated Monthly)
This week's word in the news: CONTAGIOUS
DEFINITION:
Capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object. Tending to spread from person to person.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
"We’re dealing here with a highly contagious and often fatal disease for which there presently is no known cure."
►The Los Angeles Times -- 05/25/2020
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