Creator: Christian Science Monitor | visit site
Grade Range: K - 5
Elementary students can safely browse through this growing collection of Kidspace articles to find information about a favorite topic or resources for a school project. Topics include history, animals, crafts and activities, language arts, sports, and technology. The fun and informative articles - downloadable as PDF files - are engaging for parents and teachers as well and provide some great ideas for activities in the classroom or a home.
In the Classroom
Use this site to encourage students to become more involved with current events. Every week assign a group of students a news section to research and report back to the class about. Have students create a multimedia presentation using UtellStory, <a href="/single.cfm?id=14414">reviewed here</a>. Challenge students to find a photo (legally permitted to be reproduced), and then narrate the photo as if it is a news report. To find Creative Commons images for student projects (with credit, of course), try Compfight, <a href="/single.cfm?id=10280">reviewed here</a>.
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