Announcements for Oct 20, 2019
Your students live in a digital world. The eEdition is an excellent interactive tool that helps you and your students meet technology and core curriculum learning objectives.
What is Impeachment?
If you’ve been talking about the news surrounding our president with your family or in your classroom, you may be confused about what exactly is happening in Washington, D.C. This week, The Mini Page explores what impeachment means.
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When it comes to evaluating information that flows across social channels or pops up in a Google search, young and otherwise digital-savvy students can easily be duped.
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.
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
►Archive of Geography quizzes
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
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.
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.
►Electronic device batteries: Nobel winners and new fire risk worries
-- Front Page Talking Points Archive
►Did we betray our Kurdish allies?
Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
DEFINITION:
Something that lies outside the main body or group that it is a part of. Someone who stands apart from others of his or her group, as by differing behavior or beliefs.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Shepard Smith, whose newscast on Fox News Channel seemed increasingly an outlier on a network dominated by supporters of President Trump, says he is leaving the network.
►The Boston Globe -- 10/14/2019
Youth content from the Tuesday digital Denver Post. Written for and by kids!
► Word Bank
► Assessment Test
► Web Links
The Mini Page has gone digital!
This weeks lesson:
► Keeping Up With Money
NASA's Night Sky Network
A monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students (Updated Monthly)
