Interactive Lessons UPDATED EVERY MONDAY
Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
►Death rates soar in Southeast Asia as virus wave spreads
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
►Archive of Geography quizzes
►Do unvaccinated face deadly risk?
►Archive of past lessons
►Teacher comments
►Private flights by executives Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson signal 'the dawn of a new space age'
-- Front Page Talking Points Archive
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.
This week's word in the news: COMMODITY
DEFINITION:
An article of trade or commerce, especially a product as distinguished from a service. Something of use, advantage, or value.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Proponents contend subjugating nature as a commodity, used to satisfy human demands, is leading to disaster as the climate warms, and they’re pressing for a new paradigm.
►The Denver Post -- 07/26/2021
