

Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
►Archive of Geography quizzesHow 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:
►Quick removal of White House wing for large ballroom is latest flashpoint for Trump critics
-- Front Page Talking Points Archive

NASA's Night Sky Network
A monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students (Updated Monthly)

►Were political ‘jokes’ just too ugly?
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Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
Science Webcasts

Science Audio webcasts: An exclusive partnership with Pulse of the Planet, updated 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: PIGMENT
DEFINITION:
A substance that imparts black, white, or a color to other materials.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Pea-soup green pigment floated where the water met the shore on Eagle Nest Lake on Tuesday, while bright, turquoise pigment stained the south boat ramp.
►The Albuquerque Journal -- 10/27/2025

WEDU and PBS are here to support teachers, students and families during these challenging times. To help address the need for quality distance learning resources, this page has been updated with information about a new statewide PBS initiative to broadcast weekday At-Home Learning programming for school-age groups on WEDU along with standards-driven lesson plans from PBS LearningMedia that correlate with each broadcast.

Use the News by the USF Stavros Center in collaboration with Tampa Bay Times Newspaper in Education program and Florida Press Educational Services.