Announcements for Oct 07, 2025

Advantages of the classroom eEdition!

Your students live in a digital world. The eEdition of The Reading Eagle is an excellent interactive tool that helps you and your students meet technology and core curriculum learning objectives.

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Traci Arnold
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Online Extras (Updated every Monday)

Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.

This Week's lesson:
Brazil’s popular payment system upsets U.S.

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This Week's lesson:

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. puts federal childhood vaccine advice under review

The future of national vaccine policy is uncertain under Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of immunization who is the president's secretary of health and human services. The federal government has canceled major contracts for vaccine rese...

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Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:

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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.

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This Week's lesson:

Identical twins climb back in time for mountaineering experiment


British twins Hugo and Ross Turner are preparing to climb Nepal's Mera Peak, as part of a study testing clothing performance in extreme cold and low oxygen conditions. The twins will compare the performance of modern high-altitude gear to the type us...

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The news media shape how we see and understand the world around us. With its new video series, NBCU Academy takes a deep dive into what it means to be a journalist today, how the industry is evolving, and how the next generation can help.

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NASA's Night Sky Network

A monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students (Updated Monthly)

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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.

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This Week's lesson:

Must generals, admirals slim down?

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This week's word in the news: ADVERSITY

DEFINITION:

A difficult or unpleasant situation.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Indeed, the Dodgers shrugged off the early adversity, with Ohtani allowing no further damage over a six-inning start; finishing his postseason pitching debut with nine strikeouts and four monumental scoreless frames after the second.
The Los Angeles Times -- 10/06/2025

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Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.

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