Featured Programs
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African-American All Stars
African-American All Stars: From All Walks of Life: Profiles dozens of the most influential African Americans and offers suggestions for writing research reports. Perfect for Black History Month in February.
Exploring Diversity
Exploring Diversity: At each stage of our lives, we face different diversity issues. This supplement explores the concerns, prejudices, pressures and opportunities diversity brings as we grow up.
Generation Fix: Young Ideas for a Better World
Generation Fix: Volunteering: Never doubt that young people make a difference. These excerpts from the award-winning book tell wonderful and inspiring stories about ordinary kids doing extraordinary things to make the world a better place.
Give Them the Keys
Newspaper In Education Week is celebrated annually during the first full school week of March, specifically March 5-9, 2012.
Marking the event this year, the NAA Foundation re-releases the teacher’s guide Give Them the Keys. The curriculum, first introduced in 2002, has been updated to include standardized lesson plans which include common core standards, technology standards, leveled activities and assessments.
Health Care Careers
Health Careers. Careers in health are booming. This section looks at the wide variety of ways people can work in this field and have terrific careers. It’s doctors, nurses and beyond!
It is The Economy
Level Middle, Secondary
Everything we have, use, buy, read, wear or play with relates to economics in some way. The National Council on Economic Education supports 20 standards students must master in order to process economic concepts. This tab explains the standards and enhances them with dynamic NIE activities and a look at the current state of the economy.
Know Smoking
Know Smoking: Once students know smoking, they’ll commit to no smoking. Knowledge is power when it comes to being healthy and this 12-page section teaches the truth about tobacco and the industry that preys on young people.
NIE and the Common Core State Standards
The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) released a set of state-led education standards, the Common Core State Standards, in June, to be adopted state-by-state. Georgia adopted the standards in July. The standards establish clear and consistent goals for learning that will prepare America's children for success in college and work. This teacher's guide, "NIE Meets the Common Core Standards," provides 77 page
Read, Write, Relate...Communicate
Read, Write, Relate … Communicate: Having excellent communication skills enables students to do well on standardized tests and to go on to successful careers later in life. When you can read and write well, you can speak articulately and communicate clearly. The exercises in this section use the newspaper to help students hone these valuable skills.
The Illiad for Young Readers Chapter 1
This wonderful and classic tale has it all - conflict and resolution, bullying and bravado, internal conflict, lessons in humanities, a wonderful literary learning unit, and much more. Each chapter contains full-color illustration. 15 chapters and a comprehensive teacher's guide.
The Triumphant Spirit
The Triumphant Spirit: Holocaust: Compelling, poignant stories and photographs of Holocaust survivors. This tab has excerpts from the award-winning book of the same title as well as a page of NIE activities to help students understand some of the complex issues. It also includes an historical overview and a timeline of events. This tab offers the ultimate in curriculum materials for teaching about this watershed event in history.