Announcements for Dec 06, 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.
►Two new reports describe decline of local news coverage across U.S as a ‘crisis’
-- Front Page Talking Points Archive
►Do we only see what we want to see?
Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
DEFINITION:
Causing unhappiness or gloom: not warm or cheerful.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Forecasters were calling for a dreary Sunday with dense fog in northern parts of the state through noon and a mixture of rain and snow turning to mostly snow by the afternoon, with as much as an inch of accumulation possible.
►The Chicago Tribune -- 12/02/2019
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:
► Have a Green Holiday
NASA's Night Sky Network
A monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students (Updated Monthly)
