Announcements for Oct 07, 2025
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.
Traci Arnold
NIEReading@readingeagle.com
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
This Week's lesson:
Brazil’s popular payment system upsets U.S.
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...
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
⇒ Elementary (K-4)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.
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...
NASA's Night Sky Network
A monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students (Updated Monthly)
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.
This week's word in the news: ADVERSITY
DEFINITION:
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
CREATE YOUR OWN VOCABULARY QUIZ
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Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.