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  5. 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.

  6. Politics and Elections
Games
  1. 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.) 10-08

Lesson Plans
  1. Comparison of Countries for Current Events Discussions (Education World)
      "Students collect political, socioeconomic, geographical, and other data about 10 countries and record their data in a spreadsheet. The information is used to fuel current events discussions." 11-08

  2. Current Events (AskERIC)
      Provides 11 lessons by grade level. 11-08

  3. Current Events - Analyzing the Use of Propaganda (New York Times - Hambouz and Khan)
      "In this lesson, students analyze the use of propaganda in the war against terrorism, focusing specifically on the attacks in Afghanistan, exploring the distinction between ideas spread to benefit a cause and those spread to damage an opposing cause." 11-08

  4. Current Events - Censorship and Propaganda During Wartime (British Library - Words Alive)
      Helps students explore different points of view regarding censorship and propaganda of newspapers during wartime. Note - British spelling of English words is sometimes different from American spelling. 11-08

  5. Current Events - Examining Views of Race After September 11th (New York Times - McClain and Khan)
      "In this lesson, students examine racial profiling of Arab-Americans and Middle Eastern Americans in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. By considering attitudes and scenarios in groups, students address related issues and possible solutions." 06-07

  6. Current Events - Propaganda Sources (Donn)
      Provides three dozen sources of lessons on propaganda, media, and public opinion. Helps students look for hidden messages. 2-06

  7. Current Events - The Roles of Fact and Opinion in Relaying the News (New York Times - DeKorne and Chin)
      "In this lesson, students evaluate how facts and opinions function in relaying the news and consider the media's responsibilities in reporting during wartime." 06-07

  8. Current Events Lessons (MSNBC)
      Provides lessons for exploring half a dozen current topics. 8-03

  9. Current Events Lessons (MSNBC)
      Provides lessons for exploring half a dozen current topics. 8-03

  10. Current Events Stories and Lessons (USA Today)
      Provides lessons and stories around current news events.

  11. Current Events by Subject (New York Times)
  12. Distinguishing Facts and Opinions (Information Institute of Syracuse)
      Provides a lesson. 1-04

  13. Lesson Plans for Current Events (Awesome Library)
      Provides lesson plans on current events. 7-05

  14. Writing a News Story (StarTribune.com)
      Provides guidelines for writing a news story. 12-03

Lists
  1. Current Events - Teaching via TV and Newspapers (CSUN.edu)
      Provides a variety of sources of lessons on current events.

  2. Current Events Resources (Geographic Learning Site)
      Provides a variety of resources related to government. 7-01

  3. Current Events Through Mass Media (Levine)
      Provides dozens of sources for studying current events.

Materials
  1. Current Events - Quiz on This Week's News (New York Times)
      Provides a new quiz each week. Includes a link to a story to help answer each question. 1-05

News
  1. -Current Events (Wikipedia.org)
      Provides world news each day in a variety of topics, especial politics. 11-04

  2. -News Search star
      Provides links to find a particular news story.

  3. -News by City star
      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. 9-05

  4. -News by Country star
      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. 9-05

  5. Current Events (PBS - Frontline)
      Provides stories that help explain key events.

  6. Hourly Headline News (Excite)
  7. Human Rights News (Amnesty International)
      Investigates violations of human rights globally.

  8. Iraq (Awesome Library)
      Provides news and current events related to Iraq's relationship with the USA and the international community. Also provides background information on Iraq, such as history, economy, government, and more. 1-03

  9. Journalistic Standards and Practices - Good Taste (CBC News)
      Provides journalistic standards on what should and should not be shown to the public in news media because of the diversity of the public. 7-03

  10. News
      Provides a News Search page to find a particular story. Also provides news at a city, U.S., country or world level.

  11. North Korea (Awesome Library)
      Provides news and current events related to North Korea's relationship with the USA and the international community. Also provides background information on North Korea, such as history, economy, government, and more. 1-03

Papers
  1. Commentary on Current Events by Bill Moyers (Public Broadcasting Service - Now)
      Provides exploration into issues that have emerged from headline news stories. 1-02

  2. 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

  3. 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. "

  4. Current Events - Today's News (New York Times)
  5. Current Events Stories (USA Today)
      Provides stories around current events.

  6. Current Events and Quizzes (Houghton Mifflin)
      Provides current events information on a limited topic area and then includes challenges or quizzes.

  7. Reading a Newspaper (StarTribune.com)
      Provides a guide to the sections of a newspaper to assist with analyzing current events. 12-03

  8. Reading a Newspaper - Front Page (StarTribune.com)
      Provides a guide to the parts of a front page of a newspaper. 12-03

  9. This Day in History
Periodicals
  1. By Grade - News (Galaxy Weekly Reader) for Kids
  2. USA (CNN)
Projects
  1. Reading a Newspaper - 10 Activities (Education World)
      Provides10 activities for teaching by using a newspaper. 12-03

  2. Teaching Current Events (Education World - Hopkins)
      Provides twenty-five suggestions for engaging students in current events.



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