1st Headlines
http://www.1stheadlines.com/
Provides international and U.S. current event coverage with links to most major newspapers, and extensive search and browse features.
Afghanistan: Land In Crisis
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/landincrisis/education.html
Afghanistan: Land in Crisis, presented by National Geographic.com., features news, background online activities, teachers’ guides, lesson plans, a regularly updated interactive map, photos, and a message board.
CNNfyi.com
http://www.cnn.com/EDUCATION/
Online news provides teachers with instructional materials for integrating current events across the curriculum. A student section keeps students in grades 6-12 aware of the latest news of interest to them. Lesson plans, background material, profiles, links to useful Internet sites, and forums for interaction with other teachers are also included.
Current Events!
http://www.education-world.com/a_special/current_events.shtml
Lesson plans from Education World.
New York Times Learning Network
www.nytimes.com/learning/
Teacher connections include an extensive lesson plan archive, news highlights, in depth information on historic and current issues, and teaching tools.
News@NationalGeographic
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/
Current news of geography and other science and social studies topics.
PBS News Hour
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/index.html
News for students and lesson plans for teachers.
Teachable Moment
http://teachablemoment.org/
Activities and resources for the study of current events. (K-12)
Tracker
www.trackcurrentevents.org
Provides an interface for organizing articles and research documents, as well as provides links to help students and teacher find sites for current events.
