Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
This Week's lesson:
Finland drops out of landmine treaty
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.
Typewriters aren't bygone relics: Old-school desktop devices gain new-generation users
Before computers and other digital devices existed, some students wrote book reports, term papers and other class projects on an old-fashioned keyboard. They tapped letters, numbers and punctuation marks on electric or manual typewriters -- last...
Elon Musk's Starship rocket blows up in ‘major anomaly’
SpaceX's massive Starship spacecraft exploded into a dramatic fireball during testing in Texas last week, the latest in a series of setbacks for billionaire Elon Musk’s Mars rocket program. The company attributed it to a "major anomaly." The spacecra...
This week's word in the news: SKEWED
DEFINITION:
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
He suggested the misnaming was intentional — and a reflection of the administration’s skewed priorities.
The Los Angeles Times -- 06/23/2025
CREATE YOUR OWN VOCABULARY QUIZ
⇒ Elementary School
⇒ Middle School
⇒ High School
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
⇒ Elementary (K-4)⇒ Middle (5-8)
⇒ Secondary (9-12)
Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
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