Announcements for Aug 21, 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.
Brought to you by NBC Learn in celebration of National Women’s History Month.
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.
►Tributes to legendary singer Aretha Franklin praise the cultural impact of her half-century career
-- Front Page Talking Points Archive
►Does the U.S. need a Space Force?
Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
DEFINITION:
A natural or artificial place where water is collected and stored for use, especially water for supplying a community, irrigating land, furnishing power, etc.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The Colorado River is so strained amid population growth and a climate shift to hotter, drier conditions that federal water managers may declare an unprecedented “shortage” and cut releases from reservoirs.
►The Denver Post -- 08/20/2018
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:
► Back to School!
NASA's Space Place
A monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students (Updated Monthly)
