Online Extras (Updated every Monday)
►Election-year drama: Florida governor draws attention by sending asylum seekers to Massachusetts
-- Front Page Talking Points Archive
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
Science Webcasts
Science Audio webcasts: An exclusive partnership with Pulse of the Planet, updated 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.
►Iran protests spread after young woman’s death
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
►Archive of Geography quizzes
Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
This week's word in the news: DAUNTING
DEFINITION:
Seeming difficult to deal with in prospect; intimidating.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Following a backlash from neighbors, city workers are recommending that San Jose back down from a proposal to build tiny homes for homeless residents on a controversial piece of land across the street from an elementary school — the latest indication of the daunting difficulties in combating homelessness.
►The San Jose Mercury News -- 09/26/2022
