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- Protecting Earth's Environment
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- Provides news by city, USA, country, world and subject. Includes a page of news search tools, called News Search, to find a particular news story.
Discussions
- Provides a forum for discussion of current events.
- Provides a forum for discussion of events related to a particular cultural or national group.
Lesson Plans
- Provides nine lessons or activities related to current events.
- Provides lesson ideas and vocabulary to enhance the study of current events.
- Provides lessons and stories around current news events.
- Provides a lesson regarding the Constitutional basis for impeaching the President of the United States.
- Lesson plans are provided in the "Social Studies" section of "Lessons and Curricula."
- Provides lessons and resources that show you how to look for hidden messages. Includes worksheets.
- Provides guides to support a number of television documentary programs. Available for free on a limited basis.
- Provides activities and lessons around current events. 1-00
Lists
- Provides articles about how access to the Internet is shaping up globally, with very few in poorer economies having access.
- Provides search engines from within many countries in both the language of the country and English. 3-00
- Provides sources of information on the pro-life position related to abortion, as well as the pro-choice position.
- Provides a variety of resources related to government.
- Provides dozens of sources for studying current events.
News
- Provides a news article on President Clinton's proposal to reduce the digital divide between the poor and the affluent in the United States.
- Provides articles related to attempts to reduce the digital divide between the poor and the affluent in the United States.
- Provides the results of a UN visit to China to update information on human rights in China. 2-00
- Provides stories that help explain key events.
- Provides the stories and pictures of the latest NASA news events. 12-99
- Provides a search engine for finding news.
- Provides search tools to find a particular news story.
- Provides news stories directly from cities, world wide. Allows students to see what is important to the people of other parts of the U.S. and other countries. Also allows students to see the words used to describe the same events from different points of view.
- Provides news stories directly from other countries, not translated first by U.S. news media. Allows students to see what is important to the people of other countries. Also allows students to see the words used to describe the same events from different points of view.
- Provides news stories designed by and for kids. 3-00
- Provides a News Search page to find a particular story. Also provides news at a city, U.S., country or world level.
- Provides sources of information on topics of interest to children.
- Provides overviews of issues related to government policies that are in the news.
- Provides news sources related to the escape of the 17th Karmapa, Ugyen Trinley Dorje, from the Chinese government in Tibet. 1-00
- Provides news for kids. 2-00
- Provides national and international news for kids.
Papers
- Provides a brief background on how each leader came into a position of power. Also provides quotes and a short biography.
- Provides facts about how access to the Internet is shaping up globally, with very few in poorer economies having access.
- Provides interactive maps, data, and stories to provide insight about the period when nuclear weapons began to become global threat..
- Provides criteria for students to use in judging Web sources of information to help them think critically. 2-00
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- Current Events - Today's News (New York Times)
- Current Events Stories (USA Today)
- Provides stories around current events.
- Current Events and Quizzes (Houghton Mifflin)
- Provides current events information on a limited topic area and then includes challenges or quizzes.
- Current Issues - Short Pros and Cons (US News)
- Provides a listing of controversial issues and the pros and cons currently given for each.
- Ethics and Character Development (Mining Co. - Walker)
- Provides links to articles and lessons related to ethics and character development.
- Euro Dollar - International Impact (EmuNet)
- Provides discussions on the international impact of the use of the "Euro Dollar," or Emu, for Europe and the United States. 1-99
- Gandhi's Grandson - An Interview (Adams)
- Provides an interview with Rajmohan Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, on how to achieve world peace.
- Geography Resources (Geographic Learning Site)
- Provides short fact sheets by region of the world and by grade level.
- Latest Discoveries in Science (National Geographic)
- Provides an overview of discoveries from the microscopic to the cosmic. 11-99
- Politics - College Students Debate About Candidates
- Politics - Marketplace of Political Ideas
- Politics - Presidential Candidates
- Putin, Vladimir, New Russian President (About.com - DeLaine)
- Provides background on the new Russian President. 3-00
- Rights - Human Rights and Constitutional Law (Columbia Law School - McKeever and Rosenbaum)
- Provides information on efforts to protect human rights by country, nationality, region, program, and other criteria.
- Russian Elections Rules (About.com - DeLaine)
- Provides the rules by which elections are conducted in Russia. 3-00
- Sherman Antitrust Act (Legal Information Institute)
- Provides a summary about antitrust and monopolies law, as well as sources of information about it.
- Society in the Year 2000 (Everything2000)
- Provides plans for the year 2000.
- This Day in History
- What If the World Were a Village? (World Village Project)
Periodicals
- By Grade - News (Galaxy Weekly Reader) for Kids
- Events - Biographies on Television for Kids, Families and Educators (KidsNet)
- Searches for television programs appropriate for kids, families or educators and codes by network, grade level, curriculum area, curriculum materials available, special needs and more.
- Events - Media Search for Kids, Families and Educators (KidsNet)
- Searches for television programs appropriate for kids, families or educators. Search by network, title, grade level, curriculum area, special needs, keywords and more.
- Events - Media for Kids, Families and Educators (KidsNet)
- Provides a monthly listing of television programs appropriate for kids, families or educators. Identifies the appropriate audience for each event, including the grade level of children. Notes if the program has supporting materials for education and the types of materials. Also identifies if the program is available in Spanish or closed captions.
- Events - Space Program and Science (NASA)
- Provides stories from NASA related to space exploration.
- Events in Education (KidsNet)
- International News (Foreign Wire.com)
- Provides international news stories for current events assignments.
- News by and for Kids (KidzMagazine and Zenith)
- Provides a monthly news magazine written by kids for kids.
- News for Kids (Tomorrow's Morning)
- Provides international news stories for current events assignments.
- News for Students (On2 Newshour)
- Provides news stories for high school students.
- Publish News Stories - High School Students (Highwired Network)
- Provides a means for teachers and students to work together to publish stories online. Provides a staging area for teachers to approve stories by students before the stories go online.
- USA (CNN)
Projects
- Bridging the Digital Divide (Technology Access Foundation)
- Provides projects and opportunities to assist ethnic minorities to gain greater access to the Internet and technology.
- Current Events and News Projects - Elementary Level (BBC Schools Online)
- Provides projects and tools for elementary school level children to get involved with current events. 2-00
- Decisions on Current Events (Snyder)
- Provides interactive process for students to examine current issues, such as gun control, from the perspective of a legislator. 9-99
- Global Discovery Project (O'Shanassy)
- Provides opportunity for a select number of teachers to join with a select number of students to act as a team of investigators to find out a mystery about another country.
- NASA Biology Experiments in Space (NASA - NeurOn)
- Provides background information, as well as virtual experiences to involve students in the educational process of science.
- News Personalized (CRAYON)
- Provides a format for constructing your own newspaper.
- Politics - Presidential Campaign Simulation Game
- Teaching Current Events (Education World - Hopkins)
- Provides twenty-five suggestions for engaging students in current events.
- Volunteering Service
- Voting - Kids Participate on Election Day (Kids Voting USA)
- Provides an opportunity for kids to participate in the voting process with adults.
Purchase Resources
- Environmental News (Grist Magazine)
- Provides global news on efforts to improve the environment, as well as violations of the environment. See "More archival matter "(on the left side of the magazine's page) for past issues. 4-00
Trips
- All-Women Expedition to the North Pole (McVitie)
- World Trek (Odyssey)
- Provides shared experiences, for teachers and students, with a small group of teachers traveling the world for educational purposes.
Worksheets
- Current Events - Using Newspapers (Richmond Newspapers)
- Newspapers in Education (NIE) provides resources for using newspapers to enrich each subject area of classrooms. Resources are provided by subject.
- Current Events Stories (USA Today)
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