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NIEonline.com: Serving Newspapers in Education

Providing content and web services
for Newspaper in Education programs


Teachers: For more classroom resources make sure you contact your LOCAL NEWSPAPER

Sample the NIEonline.com content modules below


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Kenya celebrates its new constitution

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

Archive of Geography quizzes

Debate over Islamic mosque near ground zero shows sensitivity of words

-- Front Page Talking Points Archive


Words in the News

Interactive vocabulary quiz based on stories found in your newspaper.

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Lesson Plans Categorized by Grade Level

Let your teachers tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:

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

Educational links library

A library of links to resources for teachers is maintained for you. Links are classified according to grade levels and descriptions are included.

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Middle School Quiz
Words in the News

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
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. The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

Sect
Deduction
Solstice
Pulverize


2. A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

Renegade
Phloem
Gargoyle
Unanimous


3. Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

Quarantine
Lichen
Decorum
Heritage


4. A proportional part or share.

Quota
Yacht
Vaccine
Cower


5. Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

Voracious
Despondent
Inference
Vertebrate


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THIS WEEK'S WORD IN THE NEWS 

TUMULTUOUS

DEFINITION:
Noisy and disorderly.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
That whole process was a little bit tumultuous as it unfolded day to day. But the application itself and some of the proposals were truly something that would be very progressive.
NJ.com, 08/30/2010

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