NIE home

K-4

5-8

9-12

Geo Quiz

Vocabulary Quiz

Cartoons for the Classroom

Front Page Talking Points

Science Audio

News Video

Thank you Sponsors!

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.

Click here to sample the eEdition
Username: nie
password: niedemo

eEdition Tutorial

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.

Listen here!

This week's lesson:

Tooning into History: McCarthyism at 60

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.

Get This Week in History

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

Can Fast-Food Diet help you lose weight?

Discussion prompts & video archive.

THIS WEEK'S WORD IN THE NEWS

SYMBIOTIC
DEFINITION: A mutually beneficial relationship between different people or groups.	FOUND IN THE NEWS: The Lead Draw represented the perfect symbiotic relationship between a play and a player and a player and an offensive scheme. Dallas Morning News -- 02/08/2010