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NIE Special Report


Science of NHL Hockey
NBC Learn and NBC Sports, in partnership with the National Science Foundation and the National Hockey League, explores the science and math behind the physical and fast-paced sport of professional hockey.

Make science and math more interesting to students by including this informative 10-week video series into your curriculum. Explore the geometry found on the hockey playing surface, examine the physics of a slap shot using the principals of work, energy and power, see how vectors impact the passing game, learn why statistics and averages are important to professional players, and much, much more

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Complete Sixth Grade
Sustainability Curriculum

Publix Super Markets, Inc. has joined efforts with FPES (Florida Press Educational Services) to bring this program to sixth grade students. This FREE NIE Program will show your sixth grade students how to become responsible members of the planet, and to respect all of the resources that it has to offer.

Downloads:

Flip Chart for Interactive White Boards
Note: Only classrooms with white boards will be able to run this file.

Complete supplement as PDF

Teachers Guide


Lesson plans for use with the e-Edition on Interactive White Boards

Included are basic lessons for an Elementary, Middle and Secondary classroom that can be utilized to introduce Language Arts and Social Studies activities.

Middle School Social Studies Lesson Plan
Middle and High School Language Arts Lesson Plan
High School Social Studies Lesson Plan
Elementary Social Studies Lesson Plan
Elementary and Middle School Language Arts Lesson Plan

USA Weekend Teacher Guides

New Teacher's Guides are available every Monday, complete with monthly themes highlighted in a weekly lesson and a monthly activity sheet.

Click here to download guides from USA Weekend

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5 Elementary Words

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Then see if you can find the word in your newspaper -- the print edition, the website or the digital edition and copy the sentence for context. NOTE: High School words are much harder to find!


1. To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.

analyze

recluse

potential

materialize


2. A particular geographic region.

pristine

contributions

area

boundary


3. The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time ; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.

impact

convey

stamina

analogy


4. So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.

terse

diminish

zeal

grueling


5. Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed

acquire

element

debris

specimen


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This Week's Word In The News 

ASSESSMENT

DEFINITION:
The classification of someone or something with respect to its worth.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
"Using computer models ... for estimating nuclear weapons effects, as well as techniques developed for use in predicting damage in Japan from attacks by Godzilla, Mothra, and particularly Mechagodzilla, the damages from this week’s invasion by the Chitauri have been estimated," Watson wrote in his damage assessment, tongue firmly planted in cheek.
Savannah Morning News, 05/14/2012