“Current Event Connection” posts will connect educators with news stories and relevant discussion ideas featuring content from the NG Education website.
ENVIRONMENT Tiny pieces of plastics are turning up in the feces of seals that feed on whole fish, demonstrating how seaborne contamination can move up the food chain. (Seeker) Use our inquiry-based activity to help guide student discussion about human impact on ocean animals. Teachers, scroll down for a quick list of key resources in our Teachers Toolkit. Discussion Ideas New research documents the presence … Continue reading Seal Scat, Plastic Pollution
This week, we learned … … how a “somewhat dreamy scholar” sent fake typhus vaccines to Nazi soldiers and provided the real thing to fellow inmates at Buchenwald. Read of the week! Put Buchenwald in context with our interactive timeline of World War II in Europe. … how illegal gold mining is threatening cocoa farmers—and your chocolate. Where does your chocolate come from? … Continue reading 11 Things We Learned This Week
BUSINESS Tech companies launched a coalition aiming to reduce the illegal online trade in ivory and other wildlife products by 80% by 2020. (National Geographic) What else will it take to stop wildlife trafficking? Find out from Nat Geo Explorer Juliana Machado Ferreira. Teachers, scroll down for a quick list of key resources in our Teachers Toolkit. Discussion Ideas A new program unites international technology … Continue reading Tech Giants Unite, to Fight Wildlife Crime Online
WORLD A Perth family has found the world’s oldest known message in a bottle, more than 130 years after it was thrown into the sea. (ABC News) Use today’s MapMaker Interactive map to help students navigate the journey of the bottle. Teachers, scroll down for a quick list of today’s key resources in our Teachers Toolkit, including a link to today’s MapMaker Interactive map. Discussion … Continue reading Oldest-Known Message in a Bottle Washes Up in Australia
UNITED STATES For nearly 240 years, fallen soldiers from the Battle of Kettle Creek lay in unmarked graves. The trained noses of so-called “cadaver dogs” helped tentatively locate them, and preserve the site. (Fox News) Put the Battle of Kettle Creek in perspective with today’s MapMaker Interactive map of key Revolutionary War battle sites in Georgia, and put the entire “Southern Strategy” in perspective with … Continue reading Cadaver Dogs Sniff Out Likely Revolutionary War Burial Ground
