Resources for Teachers and Students
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution serves as an exceptional supplement to textbooks, which can no longer keep up with our rapidly changing world. Today's technology allows teachers and students to receive the daily newspaper at anytime on our NIE website. It is The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Newspapers In Education Department's intent to supply teachers with electronic newspapers and other educational resources all conveniently online and at no cost! Providing schools with up-to-date supplement information is an essential part of the Newspapers In Education program. Studies show that using newspapers on a regular basis in classrooms improves the reading habits and interest of students. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is proud to work with our educators who use the newspaper as an instructional tool to promote literacy.
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:
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
►Archive of Geography quizzes
►EPA wants to drop finding that lets it limit planet-warming pollution
-- Front Page Talking Points Archive
Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
►Is Trump trying to distract voters?
►Download the lessonScience 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: LEISURE
DEFINITION:
Freedom from the demands of work or duty, when one can rest or enjoy other pursuits.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
He also cited tariff threats and economic uncertainty that “could be weighing on leisure travel,” as well as rising costs in Las Vegas that “could deter more value-oriented visitors” who are “key to the summer off-season.”
►The Las Vegas Review-Journal -- 08/04/2025
This calendar provides activities for every day of the school year with a subject specific focus for each day of the week: Monday - Language Arts, Tuesday - Social Studies, Wednesday - Math, Thursday - Science, and Friday - Themes that change monthly.
►Click here to get the current monthly calendarNASA's Night Sky Network
A monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students (Updated Monthly)