A lesson plan in every issue: use these activities to make Current Events work for you.Travel the Globe Have students find each country in the news on a world map. Use pushpins to track the countries that are covered throughout the year. Analyze Photos Have students carefully examine the photographs in each issue. Ask: What does the photo tell you? Summarize sum·ma·rize intr. & tr.v. sum·ma·rized, sum·ma·riz·ing, sum·ma·riz·es To make a summary or make a summary of. sum Main Points Ask students to identify the main idea and its supporting details. Explore History Ask students: How does the historical event in Time Trip relate to today's news? Build Research Skills Boost students' research skills with CE's weekly history and geography contest. Interpret Maps, Charts, and Graphs Invite students to solve problems and draw conclusions with weekly infographics. Examine Editorial Cartoons This article or section deals primarily with the United States and Canada and does not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. Have students create editorial cartoons that reflect their own opinions. Debate It After reading CE's weekly news debate, divide students into teams for a classroom debate. Prompt Critical In nuclear engineering, an assembly is prompt critical if for each nuclear fission event, one or more of the immediate or prompt neutrons released causes an additional fission event. This causes a rapidly exponential increase in the number of fission events. Thinking Share thought-provoking Adj. 1. thought-provoking - stimulating interest or thought; "a challenging hypothesis"; "a thought-provoking book" challenging stimulating - rousing or quickening activity or the senses; "a stimulating discussion" questions to spark spark, in electricity: see arc. (language) SPARK - An annotated subset of Ada supported by tools supplied by Praxis Critical Systems (originally by PVL). http://sparkada.com. classroom discussions. |
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