“Current Event Connection” posts will connect educators with news stories and relevant discussion ideas featuring content from the NG Education website.
POLITICS Here are 11 things you need to know about the new Secretary of Education. (Cosmopolitan) How will DeVos and the Trump administration navigate U.S. “education deserts”? Teachers, scroll down for a quick list of key resources in our Teachers Toolkit. Discussion Ideas Betsy DeVos is a billionaire. She inherited millions from her father, who founded an auto-parts manufacturing company that was bought by Johnson … Continue reading Who is Betsy DeVos?
ENVIRONMENT After decades of strife, the world’s first civilization is losing many of its animals, such as otters, deer, songbirds, and more. (Nat Geo News) Our activity calls for students to select an issue involving human-wildlife conflict, and develop a list of actions people could take to reduce or reverse the problem. This might be a great option for students to choose. Teachers, scroll down for a … Continue reading ISIS Threatens Iraqi Wildlife
This week, we learned … … there’s a lost continent in the Indian Ocean. How do you lose a continent? What’s a microcontinent? How’d scientists find the lost continent? … how Ikea names products. What kind of supply chain does Ikea have? … a medieval skeleton is offering clues about how leprosy spread around the world. How does disease spread? … speed … Continue reading 11 Things We Learned This Week
ENVIRONMENT A not-so-grand canyon has opened in the Arizona desert. How? Why? (Forbes) Learn more about the forces that create earth fissures with our activity. Teachers, scroll down for a quick list of key resources in our Teachers Toolkit. Discussion Ideas The big crack in the Arizona desert is called an earth fissure. What is an earth fissure? Earth fissures are associated with land subsidence, … Continue reading Another Canyon in Arizona
SCIENCE You won’t find it in your family album, but a tiny prehistoric creature with a bag-like body, a huge mouth and no anus has become the best candidate yet for our earliest known relative. (The Guardian and Christian Science Monitor) Where does this mouthy mystery fit in the circle of life? Teachers, scroll down for a quick list of key resources in our Teachers … Continue reading Huge Mouth, No Anus: Meet One of Our Earliest Ancestors
