Online Extras (Updated every Monday)

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

This Week's lesson:
Student party ousts opposition leader in Serbia

Click here to take the quiz

Click here for the quiz archive

This Week's lesson:

Tuesday elections may bring turning point if Democrats gain majority in all or part of Congress

Final votes will be cast Tuesday in elections spanning every state. Tens of millions of voters have already cast advance ballots for Congress, governors and state legislators, as well as for mayors, school boards and other local offices. The mos...

Click here to read more

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

⇒  Elementary (K-4)
⇒  Middle (5-8)
⇒  Secondary (9-12)

This Week's lesson:

Brands are encouraging models to sign away their AI rights

Contracts are asking models to sign away their rights, allowing brands to alter which body parts appear in the images. The fine print reveals that brands are permitted to use a digital replica of the model. Brands can control how a model’s likeness i...

View this week's new video!

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.

Click here to view this week's video

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

View this week in history