What is NIE?
Newspapers In Education (NIE) is an exciting interactive program that engages students in learning by providing teachers access to the Austin American-Statesman ePaper for use in their classroom. The NIE program is designed to make reading newspapers a fun and beneficial learning experience.
NIE is a worldwide effort in which school textbooks and teacher materials are supplemented with the use of the local newspaper. This is accomplished everyday by providing a “living textbook” in a format that is less intimidating and more appealing to students.
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
This Week's lesson:
Protests and a general strike paralyze Barcelona, Spain
President Trump defends policy reversal in northern Syria that brings chaos and criticism
Part of northeastern Syria has plunged back into chaos. The area had been relatively stable since March, when U.S.-backed local fighters known as Kurds overcame a takeover by the Islamic State terror group (also called ISIS). Now roughly 1,000 U...
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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.
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
⇒ Elementary (K-4)
This week's word in the news: OUTLANDISH
DEFINITION:
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
At first, the question about the scam, as it was posed to Healy earlier this month, seemed too outlandish to be true.
The San Francisco Chronicle -- 10/21/2019
CREATE YOUR OWN VOCABULARY QUIZ
⇒ Elementary School
⇒ Middle School
⇒ High School
Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
Singapore bans ads for high-sugar drinks
Singapore is waging a war against diabetes by putting a total ban on advertisements for some sugary drinks. It's one of the first countries to initiate this kind of ban. Singapore's Ministry of Health said it will ban advertisements for sugar-sweeten...
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.
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.
