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Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.

This Week's lesson:
Israel attacks, Iran retaliates

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This Week's lesson:

Typewriters aren't bygone relics: Old-school desktop devices gain new-generation users

Before computers and other digital devices existed, some students wrote book reports, term papers and other class projects on an old-fashioned keyboard. They tapped letters, numbers and punctuation marks on electric or manual typewriters -- last...

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Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:

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Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.

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This Week's lesson:

U.S. senator forcefully removed from press conference

U.S. Senator Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was forcefully removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's news conference and handcuffed in Los Angeles last week. The incident occurred as he tried to ask about the immigration raids that have sparked...

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The news media shape how we see and understand the world around us. With its new video series, NBCU Academy takes a deep dive into what it means to be a journalist today, how the industry is evolving, and how the next generation can help.

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