Teachers: Check out these new features available this week on your Media in Education website!
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- This week's Geography in the News quiz topic is "Switzerland rejects providing lawyers for animals." Take the quiz here
NEW! You can now search the Geography in the News module for any country or world region you may be studying and get relevant quizzes from the Archive.
- Front Page Talking Points this week is "Paralympic Games showcase athletes with extraordinary abilities". The lesson can be found here.
NEW! Front Page Talking Points now includes a relevant video every week as part of the weekly report.
- The Cartoons for the Classroom lesson this week is Is a bipartisan reconciliation filibuster healthy?.
Download a lesson based on political cartoons and print it out for use in your classroom. (PDF format)
There are more than 150 lessons archived for your use
- Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool with our Use The News activities, categorized by grade level:
Elementary (Grades K-4)
Middle (Grades 5-8)
Secondary (Grades 9-12)
- This Week's Word in the News is CHAFE. Take the Words in the News quiz and generate a Vocabulary Quiz for your class here. Options include word lists for middle school students as well as high school students.
- This Week in History highlights diversity and multiculturalism through worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
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- NEW! Daily Science Audio Webcasts: Each weekday, Pulse of the Planet provides a two-minute sound portrait of Planet Earth, tracking the rhythms of nature, culture and science worldwide and blending interviews and extraordinary natural sound.
Listen here