Welcome to the Grand Forks Herald NIE website!
Our Newspaper In Education Program has expanded to include our e-Edition. Students live in a digital world. The e-edition of the Grand Forks Herald is an excellent interactive tool in the classroom. Teachers may order and utilize copies needed for your students as educational tools in the classroom at no charge.
This new NIE website includes skills-building activities, games, puzzles and more, updated weekly.
Log into the e-edition using the form to the right or sign up for e-edition access using our online order form.
Donations from the community are used to help offset the cost of providing newspapers. The Grand Forks Herald absorbs all administrative costs so that every cent donated goes directly into the hands of local students.
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e-Edition Access
To register your class or your entire school, click on the "Order" navigation button above and enter the information requested. At the time of the order you will create a user name and password to share with students and teachers to access the e-Edition.
Online Extras (Updated every Monday)
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
This Week's lesson:
Students lead massive protests in Serbia
Breakthrough: Fighting stops and prisoner releases start as Israel and Hamas accept Gaza ceasefire
Here's promising news from the Middle East: Israel and the terrorist group Hamas agree on a prisoner exchange and ceasefire in their Gaza Strip war. The three-part deal is complicated and can't erase the devastation, but it's the first breakthro...
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.
NASA's Night Sky Network
A monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students (Updated Monthly)
Meteorite strike captured on Canadian home’s doorbell camera
A doorbell camera captured the sight and sound of a meteorite striking a home walkway on Prince Edward Island in Canada. “To the best of my knowledge, it’s the first time that a meteorite hitting the surface of the Earth has been recorded on video wi...
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.
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: OLIGARCHY
DEFINITION:
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
President Joe Biden used his farewell address to the nation Wednesday to deliver stark warnings of an “oligarchy” of the ultra-wealthy taking root in the country and of a “tech-industrial complex” that is infringing on Americans’ rights and the future of democracy.
Albuquerque Journal -- 01/20/2025
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