Current Events

Develop global and civic awareness by bringing the real world into your classroom.

THIS PROGRAM (provided at no cost to you) INCLUDES:

• Teacher's guide correlated to Colorado Model Content Standards
• USA Weekend lesson plans and discussion guides posted online the Wednesday prior.
• Parade Magazine lesson plans and discussion guides posted online the Wednesday prior.
• Online Current Events Quiz based on the Sunday Denver Post
• Weekly online editorial cartoon feature with worksheet to help students analyze and understand editorial cartooning
• Featured News Story online with background on a current news topic, with questions and Web links. Updated each Monday, with an archive of past topics
• Weekly Geography Quiz, a self-checking way for students to learn more about places in the news
• 30 days of the newspaper at any time to review how events unfold
• Access to the eArchive, with newspapers back to April, 2004