Welcome to NIE

Newspapers In Education is a national program that promotes literacy through the use of the daily newspaper as an instructional aid in the classroom. The Daily Sentinel partners with educators and local businesses to encourage literacy, to broaden students' community and global perspectives and to equip area teachers with a powerful tool for teaching at no cost to the teachers or schools.

For more infoplease call Margie Stuart at 936-631-2629 or e-mail mstuart@coxnews.com

 Weekly Features (Updated every Monday)

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Download a lesson based on political cartoons and print it out for use in your classroom. (PDF format)

This week's lesson: Tooning into History: McCarthyism at 60

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There are more than 140 lessons archived for your use


Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:

Elementary (Grades K-4)
Middle (Grades 5-8)
Secondary (Grades 9-12)

Audio

Daily Science Webcasts


Butter - Spreading the Word on Pollution

Scientists are turning to a new source of data for studying chemical pollution - butter.


Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.

Get This Week in History



Can Fast-Food Diet help you lose weight?

Discussion prompts & video archive.


Brazil debates girl's role in Carnival

Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.

Archive of Geography quizzes

THIS WEEK'S WORD IN THE NEWS 

SYMBIOTIC

DEFINITION:
A mutually beneficial relationship between different people or groups.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The Lead Draw represented the perfect symbiotic relationship between a play and a player and a player and an offensive scheme.
Dallas Morning News -- 02/08/2010

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Jan. 31- Feb. 6, 2010

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