Sub-Topics Biotechnology Business Ethics Education Environment Future Health Helping Children Cope Holidays Iraq Kashmir Conflict Middle East Politics School Violence Science Technology Terrorism World Peace for Kids and Teens Also Try Intercultural Communication Multicultural Training News 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. Politics and Elections Games Current Events Game (FunBrain.com - BrainBowl) Provides a competition on current events for kids or kids versus a parent. (Editor's Note - Most of the questions are not easy.) 1-02 Lesson Plans Current Events (AskERIC) Provides 11 lessons by grade level. 2-01 Current Events (Newsweek) Provides lesson ideas and vocabulary to enhance the study of current events. Current Events Stories and Lessons (USA Today) Provides lessons and stories around current news events. Current Events by Subject (New York Times) Distinguishing Facts and Opinions (AskERIC) Provides a lesson. 2-01 Lesson Plans for Current Events (Awesome Library) Lesson plans are provided in the "Social Studies" section of "Lessons and Curricula." Lists Current Events Resources (Geographic Learning Site) Provides a variety of resources related to government. 7-01 Current Events Through Mass Media (Levine) Provides dozens of sources for studying current events. News -News Search Provides search tools to find a particular news story. -News by City 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. -News by Country 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. Current Events (PBS - Frontline) Provides stories that help explain key events. Hourly Headline News (Excite) Human Rights News (Amnesty International) Investigates violations of human rights globally. News Provides a News Search page to find a particular story. Also provides news at a city, U.S., country or world level. Papers Commentary on Current Events by Bill Moyers (Public Broadcasting Service - Now) Provides exploration into issues that have emerged from headline news stories. 1-02 Critical Thinking About Web Sources (Michigan State University - Link) Provides criteria for students to use in judging Web sources of information to help them think critically. 2-00 Current Events (McGraw-Hill) " First, Update provides summaries of recent world developments. Second, it offers students tools, including links to resources on the World Wide Web, that they can use to follow world events on their own. " 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. People of the Year 2000 (Time.com) Provides short biographical statements about ten people who were influential in the year 2000, according to Time magazine. Includes Kofi Annan, Yasser Arafat, Ehud Barak, Hillary Clinton, Elian gonzalez, Eminem, Shawn Fanning, Vicente Fox, Richard Hatch, Judge Penfield Jackson, Marion Jones, John McCain, Wen Ho Lee, and Jack Welch. 12-00 Review of 2001(CNN) Provides CNN's most important news stories for 2001. 1-02 This Day in History Periodicals By Grade - News (Galaxy Weekly Reader) for Kids USA (CNN) Projects Teaching Current Events (Education World - Hopkins) Provides twenty-five suggestions for engaging students in current events.

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