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Your students live in a digital world. The eJournal of The Albuquerque Journal is an excellent interactive tool that helps you and your students meet technology and core curriculum learning objectives.
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Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
This Week's lesson:
Amazon to close all its warehouses in Quebec
New deep-sea research base is called a step toward 'a permanent human presence in the ocean'
British researchers are pioneering a new way to study the ocean. At an abandoned rock quarry, a small company named Deep is using a new type of habitat to see if scientists can live on the sea floor at depths up to 600 feet for weeks, months and...
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
⇒ Elementary (K-4)Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
Science Audio webcasts: An exclusive partnership with Pulse of the Planet, updated daily with two-minute sound portraits of Planet Earth. Tracking the rhythms of nature, culture and science worldwide, blending interviews with extraordinary natural sounds.
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.
Hackers access millions of student records
Hackers breached PowerSchool, exposing sensitive data of over 62 million students and 9.5 million teachers in North America. The attack targeted the Student Information System, revealing names, contact information, dates of birth, medical alert infor...
This week's word in the news: GUARDRAIL
DEFINITION:
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
As a progressive freshman mayor, Johnson’s challenge now is to stand up for Chicago’s large immigrant community while also navigating the risk of antagonizing Trump, who many experts believe will have fewer guardrails during his second term.
The Chicago Tribune -- 01/27/2025
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