Announcements for Oct 22, 2018
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.
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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.
Think you know football? Ok, what's a prolate spheroid? This 10-part video series focuses on the science behind NFL football.
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.
►Saudi Arabia’s role in journalist’s death at its diplomatic site provokes global attention
-- Front Page Talking Points Archive
►Transforming a prank into a message
Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
DEFINITION:
A refuge granted by a sovereign state to a person who has been persecuted in their own country.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
It was intended to provide guidance on the agency’s new interpretation of asylum law, which sought to make it harder for victims of domestic violence or gang violence to qualify for asylum in the U.S.
►The Denver Post -- 10/22/2018
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:
► How We Vote
NASA's Space Place
A monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students (Updated Monthly)
