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.
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
This Week's lesson:
Trump proposes to empty Gaza and build ‘Riviera of the Middle East’
Federal civilian workers have job fears as Trump moves to slash government payroll
U.S. government civil servants are low-visibility professionals typically shielded from political pressure. They devote careers, sometimes most of their working lives, to federal law enforcement, diplomacy, health care, education, scientific res...
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
⇒ Elementary (K-4)Sweden to tighten gun laws after mass shooting at school
After deadliest mass shooting in Sweden's history, the country's government planned to tighten the nation's gun laws. Eleven people were killed, including the gunman, and five others seriously wounded last week at at an adult education center west of...
This week's word in the news: ATMOSPHERIC
DEFINITION:
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A major atmospheric river storm — strong enough to potentially rival some of the extreme storms that have walloped Southern California in recent winters — is barreling toward the coast, raising the specter of damaging landslides and flooding across the region.
The Los Angeles Times -- 02/10/2025
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