Announcements for Dec 09, 2024
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.
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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.
Science Webcasts
Science Audio webcasts: An exclusive partnership with Pulse of the Planet, updated with two-minute sound portraits of Planet Earth. Tracking the rhythms of nature, culture and science worldwide, blending interviews with extraordinary natural sounds.
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
►Archive of Geography quizzesTap 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.
►'An anti-press extremist:' Trump hostility revives concern among journalists and media leaders
-- Front Page Talking Points Archive
►Does it matter if it’s happy or merry?
►Download the lessonDiversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
This week's word in the news: QUARANTINE
DEFINITION:
A condition, period of time, or place in which a person, animal, plant, vehicle, or amount of material suspected of carrying an infectious agent is kept in confinement or isolated in an effort to prevent disease from spreading.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The state’s Department of Food and Agriculture has placed the farm under quarantine and has suspended distribution of any raw milk product produced on or after Nov. 27.
►The Los Angeles Times -- 12/09/2024
Youth Content
Archived youth content written for kids by kids for the digital Denver Post.
► Archived Issues
► Word Bank
► Assessment Test
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NASA's Night Sky Network
A monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students (Updated Monthly)