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Our Newspaper In Education Program has expanded to include our e-Edition. Students live in a digital world. The e-edition of The Bemidji Pioneer is an excellent interactive tool in the classroom. Teachers may order and utilize copies needed for your students as educational tools in the classroom at no charge.
This new NIE website includes skills-building activities, games, puzzles and more, updated weekly.
Log into the e-edition using the form to the right or sign up for e-edition access using our online order form.
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e-Edition Access
To register your class or your entire school, click on the "Order" navigation button above and enter the information requested. At the time of the order you will create a user name and password to share with students and teachers to access the e-Edition.
Online Extras (Updated every Monday)
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
This Week's lesson:
Attacks on politicians in Germany are on the rise
An environmental warning signal has returned in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans: Coral is turning white and even dying as record sea heat takes a devastating toll. That sign, known as bleaching, happens when living coral gets stressed an...
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
⇒ Elementary (K-4)⇒ Middle (5-8)
⇒ Secondary (9-12)
Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
NASA's Night Sky Network
A monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students (Updated Monthly)
Scores of starving pelicans found along California coast
Scores of starving pelicans have been found in coastal California communities and many others have died as local wildlife rescue centers have become overwhelmed with the sick birds. Wildlife experts who examined the birds found no diseases or toxins ...
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.
This week's word in the news: PENDULUM
DEFINITION:
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The grim forecast was driven by lower than projected state revenues, continuing a pendulum swing from the fiscal boom of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Los Angeles Times -- 05/13/2024
CREATE YOUR OWN VOCABULARY QUIZ
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