►China locks down 50 million people as new virus spreads
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
►Archive of Geography quizzes
Online Extras (Updated every Monday)
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:
►Super Bowl brings Kansas City-San Francisco showdown -- and an 'ad bowl'
-- Front Page Talking Points Archive
►Are they royal renegades or refugees?
►Archive of past lessons
►Teacher comments
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: DIRE
DEFINITION:
Causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
As insulin prices have soared, some people have been forced to pursue alternatives such as seeking options from other countries, lower-quality products or rationing their supply of insulin, which can have dire consequences.
►The Chicago Tribune -- 01/27/2020
Virtual Field Trip to the Times
Have you always wondered what goes into the making of the Tampa Bay Times? Take your students on a virtual field trip to our printing plant!
- 360 Video: “Tampa Bay Times: The Making of a Daily Miracle”
- Video: “What happens at the Tampa Bay Times Printing Plant: An investigation by the student journalists of the Melrose Elementary Center for Journalism and the Tampa Bay Times NIE program.”
- Article: Start the Presses
- Teacher Guide: The Making of the Tampa Bay Times
- Anatomy of the Tampa Bay Times
Newspaper in Education Teaching trunks
The Tampa Bay Times Newspaper in Education program invites teachers to use our Teaching Trunks to teach newspaper-based lessons in their classrooms. Teaching Trunks are available for loan to public and private schools in Citrus, Hernando, Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco and Pinellas counties.
The National Wildlife Federation lesson plans are designed to introduce students to life science, ecology, wildlife biology, scientific identification and observation. All lesson plans are aligned to the National Science Education Standards and organized by grade level.
NASA's Night Sky Network
A monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students (Updated Monthly)