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.
Who fuels the politics of violence?
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Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
►Fires ravage refugee camp on Greece’s island of Lesbos
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: Looking back on or reviewing the past.
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.
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
►Fires ravage refugee camp on Greece’s island of Lesbos
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
►Archive of Geography quizzes
►Health warnings sink in: Vaping drops among teens and pre-teens
-- Front Page Talking Points Archive
►Who fuels the politics of violence?
►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: RETROSPECT
DEFINITION:
Looking back on or reviewing the past.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Sen. John Cornyn said he understands “on the human level” why President Donald Trump intentionally downplayed the severity of the coronavirus pandemic during the early months of this year, but added that Trump could have handled it better “in retrospect.”
►The Dallas Morning News -- 09/14/2020
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