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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

Sibley - Birdwatching 101
As any expert would tell you, the first step to bird watching, is well, finding the birds. Here are some tips.
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-- May 25, 2012

This week's lesson:
Romney 'takes credit' for auto recovery
►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.
Teachers: Sign up for Kids’ Kopy today
Educators, sign up today for our 12 page tabloid! It is designed for students in grades K-8, although it is beneficial for any student. In addition to focusing on a different character trait, each month's Kid's Kopy will have a science page form the Space Place, a serial story with TEK activities, safe web sites, and much more. Most of the lessons are fun, colorful and have TEKS/TAKS objectives. Also included are innovative tips for teachers and parents.
Online Extras (Updated every Monday)
Put the Tribune-Herald to work in your classroom
NIE Special Report
Science Behind the News
NBC Learn in partnership with the National Science Foundation explores the science, technology, engineering and math found in current events. The Science Behind the News series connects fundamental STEM topics to real world current news events.

Poll Details Tight Race Between President Obama and Romney
►Discussion prompts & video archive.

Courtesy of NBCLearn, News Video will feature video selections from the NBCLearn series Decision 2012 until the November Presidential election.
This week's word in the news: SEDENTARY
DEFINITION:
Accustomed to sit or rest a great deal or to take little exercise.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Pets are getting fatter because of their increasingly sedentary lifestyles and they are being overfed, and more than one in seven cats and dogs in Ohio are now overweight or obese, according to a new report
►Dayton Daily News -- 05/21/2012
►Quebec shuts some universities to curb student protests
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
►Archive of Geography quizzes
►Population turning point: Nonwhite parents account for more than half of recent U.S. births
-- Front Page Talking Points Archive
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
Throughout this school year, PARADE Classroom will be targeting up to six features that provide poignant life lessons for high school students. Be sure to check them out!
Get the lessons here:
► Cyberspace Safety
► 9/11 Lessons and Legacies
► Keeping America Free















