Keeping it Current

I had an email a few weeks back with some great current event websites.  Most of these sites provide a teacher resource section with ideas for use in the classroom and educational resources.

http://www.tweentribune.com/

• Pages for Tweens, Teens and Espanol
• Stories are selected by tweens/teens in conjunction with professional journalists
• Site is easy to navigate and updated daily

http://tweentribune.com/top10

Find out how other Teachers have used this site:  http://tweentribune.com/love

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/thenews/

• Provides current events for teens to use for school or personal use
• Combines journalism and video to relate information on subjects of interest
• Some videos available in Closed Caption
• Each video has lesson plans, discussion questions, student activities, vocabulary and primary references

Find Educator Resources:  http://www.pbs.org/newshour/thenews/foreducators/index.php

http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/?iref=allsearch

•  Ten-minute, commercial-free, daily news program
• Appropriate for middle and high school students
• Teacher resources include transcripts for each show, discussion questions, media literacy questions, downloadable maps and more

http://www.channelone.com/

• Covers breaking news and in-depth issues affecting the world and nation
• News coverage is geared towards teens
• Teacher resources include transcripts, weekly news quizzes, lesson plans and more
• Provides Education Correlations showing you how the issues and topics align with your state standards