The week in rap is an excellent short video segment that wraps up a week’s worth of news in a music video format. New raps are posted each Friday. Shout out to Mr. Wilson who had this site posted in his classroom blog.
The New York Times
The New York Times’ education blog contains a featured topic each week, lesson plans, a “this day in history” and “word of the day” segment. Student handouts and teacher planning sheets are included as well.
Time for Kids
There are two parts to this current event site. Explore the teacher’s site in the link above for lessons that are divided by grade levels. Many include worksheets, mini-lessons, and graphic organizers. If you visit the kid’s site http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kids/news you can read the cover stories on-line. It is available on the web without a subscription.
Newseum
Newseum is one of my favorite new sites. It provides not only current events but excellent examples of point of view. As of this post, there were 799 front pages from 76 countries. Students can see the front pages of newspapers from around the world. If anyone uses this site I would love to know how it goes.
Newsmap
Similar to Newseum, Newsmap provides a summary of current events around the world. On this site, however, small boxes with only the headlines appear, so students can quickly infer what the world is focusing on. Near the bottom right of the page you can see how to filter the news as well as the legend for the color coded boxes. Rolling the mouse over a headline will provide a pop up box that gives a summary of the headline as well as the publishing newspaper. Excellent visual.
News for You
Education World selects articles for you based on what they believe the students would be interested in reading. Clicking on each article gives you a full lesson plan with appropriate grade levels and suggestions to activities to use with your students.
Global Broadcast for Kids
Global Broadcast for Kids is a site designed by kids for kids. It contains short newscasts on current events, entertainment, book reviews and more.
Dogo News
Dogo, meaning “young” in Swahili, is a website with current events geared toward students ages 5-10. The passages are short, but seem to be geared more toward 8-10 year olds as opposed to younger students. Take a look and decide for yourself!
Kids Learn Out Loud
Kids Learn Out loud is a site full of podcasts and videos if your students are auditory learners.
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