Do you teach current events?

 

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The Exhaustion of Black Educators on Another "Day After"

 

Another day another mass shooting in the good ol' US and A.  Right to arm bears or something like that.  Yep when was that written in your Constitution, like 1400?  Guns were like muskets or sling shots or somehing.  Ya'll messed up.  Second Amendment, lol.  Anyways this is current events.  My daughter's boyfriend goes to University in Buffalo and she has been to that store so it is real for my white retired ass.  To read the article click here before I go off the rails.

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Lesson of the Day: ‘What Would the End of Roe Mean? Key Questions and Answers.

 

Are you teaching a Current Events or World Issues course?  If so this lesson might be what you want for this very topical topic.  To see the lesson click here.

 

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Non-Fiction Reading of Current Events

 

If you would like your students to read about current events but have them read the same content differentiated by reading level by Lexile then click here.  It is free for your students to register.

 

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Preparing to Welcome Ukrainian Students

 

Sorry but if you don't support Ukraine then go to H#ll. Please read an article as educators how to help.  Click here to read the article hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.    If you are making any   amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  Remember you can follow me by clicking on the blue follow button above. This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you. 

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What Are The 4 Causes of World War 1?

 Looking back at history sometimes is a way to understand the present.  With War in Ukraine by the aggressor Russia it might this article might be useful if you are teaching a history class.  To see the article click here  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.    If you are making any   amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  Remember you can follow me by clicking on the blue follow button above. This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you. 

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California college students with ties to Russia, Ukraine watch and worry as war unfolds

 

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NYT - What’s Going On in This Picture? | Feb. 28, 2022

Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the moderated conversation about what you and other students see.

1. After looking closely at the image above (or at the full-size image), think about these three questions:

What is going on in this picture?

What do you see that makes you say that?

What more can you find?

2. Next, join the conversation by clicking on the comment button and posting in the box that opens on the right. (Students 13 and older are invited to comment, although teachers of younger students are welcome to post what their students have to say.)

3. After you have posted, try reading back to see what others have said, then respond to someone else by posting another comment. Use the “Reply” button or the @ symbol to address that student directly.

Each Monday, our collaborator, Visual Thinking Strategies, will facilitate a discussion from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern time by paraphrasing comments and linking to responses to help students’ understanding go deeper. You might use their responses as models for your own.

4. On Thursday afternoons, we will reveal at the bottom of this post more information about the photo. How does reading the caption and learning its back story help you see the image differently?

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What Does It Mean to Ask ‘How Does Ukrainian Compare with Russian?’

Happy Valentines Day but there are more important things to discus.  Do you want WWIII?  Then you better pay attention to the BS that is happening on Ukraine's border.  Putin is just a KGB strongman that knows only how to bully.  What he does not realize is that Ukraine's will have the last laugh.  Maybe not today or tomorrow but we will.  We are not Rusky and we speak Ukrainian.  When we lost Crimea to the Russians the world sat by twiddling their fingers saying lots of things but doing nothing.  Sounds like the same thing is happening again.  Getting to the education aspect of my rant is to know something about the Slavik languages.  If you teach a World Issues or Current Events class please read  about this  by clicking  here hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are  making any amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  Remember you can follow me by clicking on the blue follow button. This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you. 

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Lesson of the Day: ‘Revolt in Kazakhstan: What’s Happening, and Why It Matters’

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Lesson Plan on Poetry that ties to History & Current Events

 

If you are doing a unit in either poetry, history or current events this might work for you.  It deals with the 22 year old Amanda Gorman's Inaugural poem "The Hill We Climb".  To see the website click here.

Salmon Cannon

Migration patterns for these salmon have been altered by an impassable dam.  Here is a video of the solution.  I am sure this could be used in a class that involves current events.

Learn With News

If you teach English or Current Events, you may want to check out Learn With News.  This site has 3 different lexile levels for each article it posts.  After each article, it has a list of "Difficult Words" with definitions.  It also has "Match the Synonym" and a true and false quiz.  To see the website click here.

An Indigenous Way of Life Threatened by Oil Sands in Canada

This article in the NY Times was written in 2013 but I just read it recently and I thought it was worthy of reading if you are teaching Current Events or an Indigenous Peoples course. Included with the article is an 18 picture slide show.  To see the article click here.

Fantasy Geopolitics

I know many people play Fantasy Football and this year I tossed my hat in and I am playing a weekly Fantasy Hockey for free of course (trying to win a RAM truck or $1000 weekly prize).  Today I am posting about a Fantasy game you can play with your students in a Social Studies/Current Events class.  It is called Fantasy Geopolitics and you pick countries that will be mentioned in the News the most.  It is free to play but you are only allowed 5 players in your league but if you have teams of 5 or 6 that should cover your class.  You can always pay a $20 monthly fee or $99 yearly fee and have up to 150 people entered.  To see the website click here.  To see Mr Klatt's team picking assignment click here.  To see Mr Klatt's website on Fantasy Geopolitics click here.

Good luck on your exams and I will be back posting after your exams.

Teaching Current Events and Math

They had more ideas on current events but I decided to only post the ones for math but please click here to see the whole article.  

There's plenty of math in the news too!

Figuring an average. Students might collect classified "Homes for Sale" ads for ten homes in a given area or for homes of a given size (e.g., two-bedroom homes). Invite students to figure from those ads the average cost for a home. (Or students might figure the average rent for homes of similar characteristics from the "Apartments for Rent" section of the newspaper.)

More ad math. Invite each student to choose a job ad from the newspaper classifieds; the ad must include a yearly salary figure. (Teach students that the term "40K" often seen in job ads is short for $40,000.) Invite students to figure from that salary figure the average monthly, weekly, daily (based on a 5-day week), and hourly (based on an 8-hour day) salary for that job.

Ad math #3. Provide a group of five ads from a local newspaper and the section of the paper that describes how much it costs to place an ad. Invite students to use the per-word or per-line cost information to figure out how much it cost to run each of the five ads.

Guess-timating! Provide each student with the copy of a news story. (Story length will vary depending on grade level.) Invite students to count the number of words in each of the first five lines of the story and to guess-timate, based on that figure, how many words long the whole story is. Older students might average the number of words in the first five lines and consider half-lines and other elements of a story to come up with a more accurate figure. Let students share their estimates and how they arrived at them. Then inform students of the exact number of words in the story (which you have pre-counted). A prize goes to the winner!

Furnish a home! Invite students to use store ads to figure the cost of furnishing a home. You might provide a list of items for each of four rooms, including a living room, a kitchen, a dining room, and a bedroom. For example, living room furniture might include a couch and side chair, a coffee table, a television, and an air conditioner. Older students might also need to figure the cost of carpeting the living room! (Options: Provide students with a budget for furnishing a four-room home and let them set priorities for the furnishings they'll select. For older students, state and local sales taxes might be figured as part of the total cost.)

Current Events and First Nations

If you are teaching any of the First Nations courses you might want to go to this site and check out the article on "The First Inhabitants of Canada".  To see it click here.    Kids Go Global is a great website for teaching Current Events.  Just click here to go to their main website.

Newspaper Map

If you are teaching about another country in your class, you might find it interesting to pull up an  online newspaper from that country and have it translated into English (or French or Spanish or whatever).  Well Newspaper Map will do that for you.  First go to the site by clicking here.  Next click on the Newspaper Map icon (like at the top of this post) in the top left hand corner to populate the global map of all the newspapers.   Next put your cursor on the map and move the map to center it and left click or scroll to zoom in on the coloured  dots/balloons  in the country or location you desire.  If you click on them a box should open up with the newspaper's name and the language you would like it to translated to.  Done.  Seeing that today is Halloween, I selected Transylvania Romania to see what I would get.  See below.

Bomb Blast

What if a nuclear bomb hit where you live.  How many people would die?  How many people would be injuried.  With this interactive tool, you can select your location (or other), what type of nuclear bomb (North Korean, Russian),  and detonation (surface or air).  To see the website click here.  Below is what would happen if  a North Korean nuke hit above our school.

There is more to this site.  If you go to the host site outrider, they cover many topics that have lead us to where we are today.  To see the main site click here.  Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for pointing out this site.

Central American Migration

Today's post is another current events, visually appealing article on the exodus from Central America.  With Dreamers and Trump in the news, this might fit into your classroom.  To see the website click here.