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to The Morning Call Newspapers in Education website. NIE provides newspapers, lessons, online activities and links for classrooms and homes. Just click on a picture or link, and you can download resources and activities at your fingertips.
Take a behind the scenes view as athletes prepare for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic & Paralympic as this 10-part series explores key areas in STEM.
Daily Science Webcasts
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.
Part of rancher John R. Erickson's Hank the Cowdog book series, this 12-week, chapter story follows Hank as he nudges bachelor cowboy Slim into asking Miss Viola to the dance––or maybe he'll just take Viola himself!
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
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.
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.
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.
►Should people die for the economy?
►Space tourism creeps closer to becoming a real thing for rich travelers by 2022
-- Front Page Talking Points Archive
NASA's Night Sky Network
A monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students (Updated Monthly)
DEFINITION:
To break or burst; to cause a breach of.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
One of the heartbreaking consequences of this pandemic is how it has ruptured the rituals of death and dying.
►The Boston Globe -- 04/06/2020
