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Tribune-Herald eEdition

Instead of the printed version landing on your school doorstep, you can order the electronic version delivered to you online at your school.

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Welcome to Newspapers in Education!

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 Waco Tribune-Herald 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 info email Carol Wenzel or call 254-757-5823.

Reminder!
VERIFY YOUR PAPERS

Teachers, please remember to verify delivery of your newspapers every semester. NIE is audited annually and must have a verification form on file each semester for every teacher.

Click here to verify that you received your newspapers

Newspaper tours

Tours of the newspaper plant are also available for school groups of 20 or fewer and no younger than eight years of age. The tours are free of charge.

Curriculum notebooks

Curriculum notebooks in the areas of reading/writing, mathematics, science, and social studies are available to teachers for $25 each. The lessons are correlated to the TAKS objectives.

Audio

Daily Science Webcasts

Hummingbirds - Brain Size Doesn't Matter

Understanding the cerebral activity of hummingbirds may lead researchers to resolve human language disorders.

Listen here!

This week's lesson:

Sunshine Week: Shine the light on your government

Download the lesson

Archive of past lessons

Teacher comments

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

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Get Kids' Kopy monthly

Kids' Kopy is a 12-page tabloid published once a month during the school year featuring a different character trait each month. These can be ordered for classrooms at 17 cents a copy.

Click here to download the KidsKopy schedule and order form.

Online Extras (Updated every Monday)

Put the Tribune-Herald to work in your classroom

NIE Special Report
2010 Census Resources

Download Teacher Guides and activity sheets categorized by grade level.

"Take your legs off and play:" Profile of a Paralympian

Discussion prompts & video archive.

THIS WEEK'S WORD IN THE NEWS

FIASCO
DEFINITION: A complete failure, especially one that is ignominious or humiliating.	FOUND IN THE NEWS: A former state official who played a major role in the state's biggest privatization fiasco is now making money trying to help Texas fix the problems that resulted. Dallas Morning News -- 03/15/2010