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:
Former Philippine president faces court in Netherlands
Measles outbreaks bring reminders of need for childhood vaccines
Measles, a disease declared eradicated in the United States in 2000, is making a deadly comeback. Cases are spreading in over a dozen states, mainly among unvaccinated youngsters. The outbreaks focus fresh attention on the value of early immuniz...
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.
NASA's Night Sky Network
A monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students (Updated Monthly)
Largest iceberg makes another stop on an epic journey
The world’s largest iceberg has run ground in shallow waters about 50 miles off South Georgia, a remote British Island that is home to millions of penguins and seals - and about 30 people during the summer. The 1-trillion-ton slab of ice is about the...
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: CAPSTONE
DEFINITION:
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
His victory is a capstone in a short but remarkably successful Iditarod career.
The Alaska Dispatch -- 03/17/2025
CREATE YOUR OWN VOCABULARY QUIZ
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