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The Boston Globe Foundation's News in Education program provides Globe content, classroom lessons, educational materials, and programs to teachers and students in classrooms across the Commonwealth. News in Education is a program of The Boston Globe Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Are climate calamities too common?
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Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
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Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
At the Edge of a Warming World
The Boston Globe examines how the land, animals, and communities in Cape Cod are being affected by climate change. “To the millions of us who visit Cape Cod once or twice a summer, the effects of climate change can seem subtle, if we see them at all,” Globe journalists write in an introduction to the story on the Globe’s website. “But once you know how to see what is shifting, changing and washing away, it is impossible to ignore.” Journalists from the The Boston Globe divided the article into five sections that each examine a different way in which climate change is affecting Cape Cod.
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TIPS ON USING THE BOSTON GLOBE IN CLASS
Use the Boston Globe News in Education Guide for Teachers to find loads of information for your classroom lessons. Choose from multimedia Special Reports and Globe e-books to century-old pictures of Boston and reporter videos on covering the news.