Resources for Teachers and Students
Announcements for May 20, 2025
Advantages of the classroom ePaper!
Your students live in a digital world. The ePaper of The Denton Record-Chronicle is an excellent interactive tool that helps you and your students meet technology and core curriculum learning objectives.
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Weekly Lessons (updated every Monday)
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
This Week's lesson:
On a remote Australian island, seabirds feed on plastic
Undersea warning sign: Coral bleaching spreads, weakening or killing vital tropical reefs
An ocean change that has alarmed scientists since the late 1990s is getting worse, with no signs that it'll end. Harmful bleaching of coral, blamed on warming seas, now affects 84 percent of tropical reefs worldwide, a partnership called the Int...
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
⇒ Elementary (K-4)⇒ Middle (5-8)
⇒ Secondary (9-12)
Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
Mexican Navy sailing ship crashes into Brooklyn Bridge
Two crew members of a Mexican Navy sailing ship died Saturday night when the vessel struck the underside of New York’s Brooklyn Bridge, smashing its masts and rigging. At least 22 others of the 277 people on board the training vessel were injured, 11...
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.
This week's word in the news: ANTICIPATE
DEFINITION:
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Many economists still anticipate that a negative impact from trade wars will materialize this year for American workers.
The Boston Herald -- 05/19/2025
CREATE YOUR OWN VOCABULARY QUIZ
⇒ Elementary School
⇒ Middle School
⇒ High School
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.
NASA's Night Sky Network
A monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students (Updated Monthly)