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Explore the new
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.
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

Termites: It's All in the DNA
Scientists are hoping to find a shortcut to hydrogen power- by studying the microbes found in a termite's gut.

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

Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
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
THIS WEEK'S WORD IN THE NEWS
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Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
Winter Olympics showcase skills, speed on snow and ice
-- Front Page Talking Points Archive
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
Jan. 31- Feb. 6, 2010
Lesson Plans:
Skills Sheet:
Numbrix Puzzle:
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