►Australia deports unvaccinated tennis champ
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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:
►Voting rights bills approach showdown in U.S. Senate
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NASA's Night Sky Network
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►Have anti-vax claims become silly?
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Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
Daily Science Webcasts
Daily 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.
This week's word in the news: PILFER
DEFINITION:
To steal without detection, especially in small quantities.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Thieves are pilfering railroad cars in a crime that harks back to the days of horseback-riding bandits, but is fueled by a host of modern realities, including the rise of e-commerce and Southern California’s role as a hub for the movement of goods.
►The Los Angeles Times -- 01/17/2022
Distance Learning
WEDU and PBS are here to support teachers, students and families during these challenging times. To help address the need for quality distance learning resources, this page has been updated with information about a new statewide PBS initiative to broadcast weekday At-Home Learning programming for school-age groups on WEDU along with standards-driven lesson plans from PBS LearningMedia that correlate with each broadcast.
Use the News by the USF Stavros Center in collaboration with Tampa Bay Times Newspaper in Education program and Florida Press Educational Services.
Webinars
Black History Month is officially celebrated in the month of February. However, throughout history, in every month, generations of African Americans struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society. Join Jodi Pushkin, manager of the Tampa Bay Times Newspaper in Education program, to explore credible resources that will help teachers and students learn more about this rich history through the exploration of informational texts.
Celebrating Black History Month using informational texts
- Date: Thursday, February 3, 2022
- Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
- WEBINAR via Zoom