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Social Studies: Links for Current Events
Current events can serve as a vehicle for teaching students skills tested on standardized tests -- reading comprehension, reading maps and charts, interpreting political cartoons, recognizing bias, supporting opinions with facts, and so on. Current events also help students to connect to their own community and to the wider world by learning what is happening in that world and why it is important to them. Students can demonstrate this knowledge through various presentations and projects. |
Teaching and Learning with The New York Times (Overview Start Page) provides free and accessible content from The Times and from all linked content, without a digital subscription.
PBS NewsHour has Daily Videos (also archived) and Lesson Plans by curriculum areas.
Just for Fun Through a special agreement with more than 800 newspapers worldwide, the Newseum displays these front pages each day on its website. The front pages are in their original, unedited form, and some may contain material that is deemed objectionable to some visitors. Discretion is advised. Online Newspapers offers thousands of world newspapers in six different languages. Takes some clicking to get to what you want. World-Newspapers.com has its own twist on various online mnews sources. Newsmap -- Visualization of News |
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Political Cartoons The National Archives has document analysis worksheets, including one on cartoons. Download fillable Acrobat generic worksheet.
American Association of Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) has a weekly political cartoon lesson (and a blank cartoon for students to try writing their own captions). There are 267 lessons on individual cartoons! Download Introductory Worksheet (pdf).
MSNBC has Daryl Cagle’s The Week in Cartoons. It’s No Laughing Matter at the Library of Congress offers an in-depth approach. And, if you want your students to create their own political cartoons, EdTechTeacher reviews eight creation sites and includes tutorials. |
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Infographics Instructions and Resources Visual Aids
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Updated 8 DSeptember 2018.
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