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.
Cartoons show storms of controversy
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NIE Special Report
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
►Florence floods the Carolinas
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: Of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes. Of or relating to parochial schools.
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
Think you know football? Ok, what's a prolate spheroid? This 10-part video series focuses on the science behind NFL football.
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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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.
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
►Florence floods the Carolinas
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
►Archive of Geography quizzes
►A book by Bob Woodward and an insider’s anonymous essay give behind-scenes White House views
-- Front Page Talking Points Archive
►Cartoons show storms of controversy
►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: PAROCHIAL
DEFINITION:
Of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes. Of or relating to parochial schools.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
He’s also learned what to do in the event that an armed intruder shows up at the North Center parochial school, which recently spent nearly $90,000 on a security system designed to quickly notify police if an active shooter is on church or school premises.
►The Chicago Tribune -- 09/17/2018
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