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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.
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
►Archive of Geography quizzes
Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
NASA's Night Sky Network
A monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students (Updated Monthly)
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►Long hours on social media or video games can put teens at risk, mental health experts warn
-- Front Page Talking Points Archive
Science Webcasts
Science Audio webcasts: An exclusive partnership with Pulse of the Planet, updated 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: OUTAGE
DEFINITION:
A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electric power.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A balloon that came in contact with a transmission line was the cause of the outage, said an NV Energy spokeswoman.
►The Las Vegas Review-Journal -- 12/16/2024
