News and Current Events

An important part of social studies in keeping up with the news and current events around the school, the state, the country and around the world.

NEWS Library
Search news sources and articles.
Lesson Plan: Track the President/ Governor/ Mayor Make A Halloween Newsletter

 

A weekly lesson: 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.

 

News Directory Associated Press CNN Student News (Middle School) Huffington Post USA Today New York Times
Washington Post Los Angeles Times Chicago Tribune Philadelphia Inquirer Detroit News Online Seattle Times
Baltimore Sun Richmond Times-Dispatch Atlanta Journal-Constitution Penn LiveCentral Pa News Dallas Morning News Montgomery Advertiser

CNN CBS MSNBC ABC PBS BBC News Fox News
Modern Ghana Newsite The Ghanaian Journal
Newspapers and Current Periodicals Primary Access Multimedia Reports See Debate
discuss current topics with other students.

 

Science News

Live Science NSF Science News Discover Magazine Blogs on Discover Magazine

 


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: Fri, Aug 19, 2011. AP.