Welcome to Newspapers in Education!
Newspapers in Education is an exciting interactive program that engages students in learning by providing them with weekly copies of The Dawson County News.
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Online Extras (Updated every Monday) Resources to help you put the Dawson County News to work in your classroom
►NATO member Romania says a Russian drone hit an apartment building
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:
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.
Download a lesson based on political cartoons and print it out for use in your classroom. (PDF format)
This week's lesson: Is AI taking jobs from college grads?
►Download this week's lesson
►There are more than 180 lessons archived for your use
►How to enjoy summer break safely at beaches, trails, pools and on the road if you drive
This week's word in the news: MITIGATION
DEFINITION:
The action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
But after years of record investment by the state in such wildfire risk mitigation, two key money sources are drying up, potentially reducing the state’s annual budget for vegetation removal by hundreds of millions of dollars.
►The Los Angeles Times -- 06/01/2026
NASA's Night Sky Network
A monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students (Updated Monthly)
Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
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.