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:
Swarms of locusts plague East Africa
Playing dirty: Major League Baseball cheating costs three managers their jobs
A sign-stealing scandal has enveloped professional baseball, bringing the departure of three teams' managers last week. The situation involves misbehavior during 2017 by the World Series-winning Houston Astros, who relayed opponents' pitching si...
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.
Administration wants to rollback nutrition rules for school meals
The Trump administration has proposed new rollbacks to Michelle Obama's school nutrition guidelines that may lead to more pizza and fries and less fruit and vegetables for students. The proposal would allow schools to cut the amount of vegetables ser...
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: ENGULF
DEFINITION:
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A man was killed after his speeding Tesla crashed and became engulfed in flames at the intersection of West Las Positas Boulevard and Hacienda Drive in Pleasanton, police say.
The San Francisco Chronicle -- 01/20/2020
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.
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)
