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Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
This Week's lesson:
110,000 spiders ‘party’ on the border of Greece and Albania
Google targets organized scammers in China to block online access
Here's a break for anyone who texts or uses a messaging app – all of us, in other words: A China-based network's cloud server was blocked last week for malicious conduct – digital scams primarily targeting Americans. A day earlier, a federal law...
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.
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.
Solar storms bring colorful skies and trouble
Spectacular aurora borealis sightings were recorded in several states last week as scientists described how solar storms from the sun's eruptions can affect power networks, satellites, and GPS accuracy by disturbing Earth's magnetic field....
NASA's Night Sky Network
A monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students (Updated Monthly)
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.
This week's word in the news: OVERZEALOUS
DEFINITION:
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Patrolmen’s Association, the city’s largest police union, attributed the encounter to an “overzealous poll worker who was complaining to the officer that the councilor shouldn’t have even been inside.”
The Boston Herald -- 11/17/2025
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