Announcements for Apr 12, 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.
Traci Arnold
NIEReading@readingeagle.com
Online Extras (Updated every Monday)
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
Batter up: Odd-looking 'torpedo bat' apparently can help players smash home runs
Major League Baseball's six-month season is under way with something new in a sport that typically doesn't change much. A new type of wood bat creates a buzz among players, fans and sportscasters after the New York Yankees used it in the first t...
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
⇒ Elementary (K-4)⇒ Middle (5-8)
⇒ Secondary (9-12)
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.
A $2,300 iPhone? Trump's tariffs could make it happen
President Donald Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on countries around the world that could drastically alter the landscape of global trade, and consumer goods like Apple's Chinese-made iPhones could be among the hardest hit, analysts said. Most iPhones...
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: QUINTESSENTIALLY
DEFINITION:
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The iPhone is a quintessentially 21st century product — Californian in its creation and design and now enmeshed in the global economy.
The Los Angeles Times -- 04/07/2025
CREATE YOUR OWN VOCABULARY QUIZ
⇒ Elementary School
⇒ Middle School
⇒ High School
Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.