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Grade Range: 6 - 11
Find news and resources for grades 7-12 at PBS Newshour Extra. Search the site by Subject Area, Videos, Arts and Media, Science, and more. Explore news articles written for students with the background and context needed to understand complex topics. The Daily Videos are ad-free and have related stories along the right side of the page. Read the current events news stories and follow the Extra Twitter feed. Don’t miss the many free lesson plans including current events, American history, health, government, holidays, and more. Lesson plans are all aligned to the Common Core standards. Lesson plan topics vary from "Personal reflections on the poetry of Maya Angelou" to "Selma to Montgomery: An introduction to the 1965 marches" and countless others! Look for the Student Voices and Student Reporting Labs for those who would like to be published or to help a local PBS station produce the news.
In the Classroom
Watch the news together on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Allow students to watch independently on laptops or at a learning station. Use any video or article as a current events writing prompt. Challenge students to create blog posts about them. If you are beginning the process of integrating technology, replace pen and paper and have students create blogs sharing their learning and understanding using Webnode, <a href="/single.cfm?id=15467">reviewed here</a>. Don’t forget the many free lesson plans (already aligned to Common Core standards). Click on the Lesson Plans link to explore the countless topics available (Poetry, Veterans, Elections, Ebola, Civil Rights, and more). For articles and videos about conflicts and tension, you might want to modify student learning by having your students engage in a debate using a tool such as Virtual Debate, <a href="/single.cfm?id=17537">reviewed here</a>, which has online examples and resources for conducting virtual debates. Keep your class up-to-date on the news using this site. Provide this link on your class website for students (and families) to access both in and out of your classroom.
At Home
Introduce this site to your preteen or teen when they need to complete a currents events assignment. Many adolescents are interested in what is happening in the world around them, and this is a good source for them to find out. Help make it a habit of knowing the news by sitting down together for just ten minutes a few times a week. Discuss the articles and topics during dinner conversation.
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veterans, news, video, civil rights, elections, poetry, holocaust, memorial day, women, world war 2, pearl harbor,
Subjects
American History, Art, Current Events, English, Government/Civics: U.S, Health, History & Culture: The Americas, History & Culture: World, Language Arts, Professional, Reading, Science, Social Studies, Social Studies, Writing,