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 Hutchinson Leader.
For more info and to start getting newspapers delivered to your classroom just circulation or give us a call at (320) 753-3657.
Weekly Features (Updated every Monday)
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)
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
►Feds vs. Apple: Major case tests whether iPhone breaks a 19th century law against monopolies
-- Front Page Talking Points Archive
Download a lesson based on political cartoons and print it out for use in your classroom. (PDF format)
This week's lesson: How to pick a jury to judge Trump?
►Download this week's lesson
►There are more than 180 lessons archived for your use
►Iran’s attack on Israel triggers fear of wider war
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
►Archive of Geography quizzes
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.
This week's word in the news: COMMUNAL
DEFINITION:
Individuals who gather into social groups.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
It has also proved especially deadly among some communal mammals, such as elephant seals and sea lions in South America, as well as caged fur-farmed animals in Europe.
►The Los Angeles Times -- 04/15/2024
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