About NIE
Teachers, give your students the world at their fingertips, at no cost to you!
Cox Media Group’s Newspapers in Education program is an exciting, interactive way to engage your students in a fun and beneficial learning experience, all while learning about their community and the world around them.
Through the NIE program, teachers are provided access to the digital version of the Dayton Daily News, Springfield News-Sun, and Journal-News. The newspaper serves as an exceptional supplement to textbooks, which can no longer keep up with our rapidly changing world.
Access to the digital Dayton Daily News ePaper, Journal-News ePaper, and Springfield News-Sun ePaper is available to all classroom teachers who request it.
Why educators use ePaper in the classroom
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
This Week's lesson:
Denmark tells new citizens to shake hands
Painful impact of partial federal shutdown grows in week five, and so does pressure to end it
Key parts of the U.S. government have been shut since Dec. 22 because of a dispute between the president and Democrats in Congress. The shutdown, which hit its 31st day as this week begins, is the longest of its kind in national history. (The pr...
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
⇒ Elementary (K-4)
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.
Teens clash with Native American elder
A crowd of teenagers surrounded a Native American elder and other activists after last week’s Indigenous Peoples March at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. A video showed a group of high school students wearing “Make America Great Again” hats surro...
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: WINDCHILL
DEFINITION:
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Forecasters said windchills could drop as low as 30 degrees below zero Sunday night through Monday morning.
The Boston Globe -- 01/21/2019
CREATE YOUR OWN VOCABULARY QUIZ
⇒ Elementary School
⇒ Middle School
⇒ High School
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.
In partnership with W.K. Kellogg Foundation, NBC Learn brings the Civil Rights era to life with over one hundred archival clips and original town hall conversations from around the county.
Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
NASA's Night Sky Network
A monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students (Updated Monthly)
