Online Extras (Updated every Monday)
►Playing dirty: Major League Baseball cheating costs three managers their jobs
-- Front Page Talking Points Archive
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.
►Swarms of locusts plague East Africa
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
►Archive of Geography quizzes
Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
Teacher guides, student supplements, teacher training modules and more.
►Are they royal renegades or refugees?
►Archive of past lessons
►Teacher comments
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.
This week's word in the news: ENGULF
DEFINITION:
To swallow up in or as in a gulf; overwhelm.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A man was killed after his speeding Tesla crashed and became engulfed in flames at the intersection of West Las Positas Boulevard and Hacienda Drive in Pleasanton, police say.
►The San Francisco Chronicle -- 01/20/2020
