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.
NASA's Night Sky Network
A monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students (Updated Monthly)
Online Extras (Updated every Monday)
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
►Swarms of locusts plague East Africa
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
►Archive of Geography quizzes
►Playing dirty: Major League Baseball cheating costs three managers their jobs
-- Front Page Talking Points Archive
The National Wildlife Federation lesson plans are designed to introduce students to life science, ecology, wildlife biology, scientific identification and observation. All lesson plans are aligned to the National Science Education Standards and organized by grade level.
►Are they royal renegades or refugees?
►Archive of past lessons
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Daily Science Webcasts
Daily 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.
Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
Kid Scoop is a multi-media education program that brings interactive educational pages, games, comprehension, vocabulary, family involvement activities and more!
This week's word in the news: ENGULF
DEFINITION:
To swallow up in or as in a gulf; overwhelm.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A man was killed after his speeding Tesla crashed and became engulfed in flames at the intersection of West Las Positas Boulevard and Hacienda Drive in Pleasanton, police say.
►The San Francisco Chronicle -- 01/20/2020
