Resources for Teachers and Students
Announcements for Oct 23, 2019
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:
Protests and a general strike paralyze Barcelona, Spain
President Trump defends policy reversal in northern Syria that brings chaos and criticism
Part of northeastern Syria has plunged back into chaos. The area had been relatively stable since March, when U.S.-backed local fighters known as Kurds overcame a takeover by the Islamic State terror group (also called ISIS). Now roughly 1,000 U...
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.
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.
Singapore bans ads for high-sugar drinks
Singapore is waging a war against diabetes by putting a total ban on advertisements for some sugary drinks. It's one of the first countries to initiate this kind of ban. Singapore's Ministry of Health said it will ban advertisements for sugar-sweeten...
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.
This week's word in the news: OUTLANDISH
DEFINITION:
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
At first, the question about the scam, as it was posed to Healy earlier this month, seemed too outlandish to be true.
The San Francisco Chronicle -- 10/21/2019
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)