News and Current Events

A important part of social studies in keeping up with the news and current events around the country and around the world. A weekly lesson in which each student uses a different source, downloads and prints a news story, studies it, and then makes an oral or written report to the class including showing where on a world map the event happened.

Current Events News Report	News Directory	Associated Press	USA Today

Washington Post	New York Times	Los Angeles Times	Chicago Tribune
Baltimore Sun	Philadelphia Inquirer	Richmond Times-Dispatch	Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Detroit News Online	Dallas Morning News	Seattle Times	Montgomery Advertiser

CNN	CBS	MSNBC	ABC
PBS	Fox News	Huffington Post

BBC News	Modern Ghana Newsite	The Ghanaian Journal
Current Events in Science	NSF Current Events in Science	Stick Science Contest!!
Newspapers and Current Periodicals			Primary Access Multimedia Reports

See Debate - discuss current topics with other students.

NEWS Report: Report weekly on an event or story in the news.

Lesson Plan for Tracking the President's Actions

Page created December 8, 2008. Anne Pemberton. Updated: Tuesday, December 1, 2009 . AP.

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