Announcements for Jun 25, 2022
Advantages of the classroom eEdition!
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.
ENHANCED. Choose to translate each article into multiple languages or choose an audio version. The full screen mode and intelligent zoom for pages and articles makes it even easier to read and navigate, plus there is a robust Table of Contents.
EDUCATIONAL. The eEdition includes all youth content that you love, plus we provide curricula such as current events & geography quizzes, writing prompts and lessons for Language Arts, STEM and Social Studies.
EFFICIENT. You receive total access 24/7 for your lesson-prep convenience. Students can access from home on any device.
EDGY. Reach your students where they live – in a digital world.
EASY-TO-USE. Search by keywords.
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Online Extras (Updated every Monday)
Media Literacy
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.
►NIE Institute's Additional Resources for Your Classroom
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.
►Deal ends ‘whiskey war’ over a tiny island near Greenland
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:
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.
►Yellowstone Park flooding is reminder of long-term climate change impacts, experts say
-- Front Page Talking Points Archive
►What is crypto and why did it crash?
►Archive of past lessons
►Teacher comments
Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
This week's word in the news: MUCKRAKER
DEFINITION:
A person who searches for and tries to expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or other wrongdoing, especially in politics.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
While the political action committee – American muckrakers – spread a video in which Cawthorn was identifiable, its claims against Boebert, of Silt, are much more tenuous.
►The Denver Post -- 06/20/2022
Youth Content
The Colorado State Patrol has developed the PILLAR program, an age specific curriculum targeting personal well-being and informed decision making as well as traffic safety.
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Archived youth content written for kids by kids for the digital Denver Post.
► Archived Issues
► Word Bank
► Assessment Test
► Web Links
The Mini Page has gone digital!
NASA's Night Sky Network
A monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students (Updated Monthly)