

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:
►Say goodbye to new pennies, a coin that outlived its purpose after 232 years
-- 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)

►Is yelling ‘traitor’ dangerous noise?
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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: ACQUAINTANCE
DEFINITION:
A person one knows slightly, but who is not a close friend.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
When photographer Peter Turnley was just 20 years old, an acquaintance from the California Office of Economic Opportunity reached out to him with a question.
►The Los Angeles Times -- 12/01/2025

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.