The Newsweek Education Program announces a Political Cartoon Contest for high school students!
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EXTRA: The War on Land Mines |
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A Newsweek ThisWeek Extra! prepared with the Adopt-A-Minefield Campaign shows how students can get involved and make a difference.
Included is an overview of the land-mine problem, a glossary of terms, activities and information about the Adopt-A-Minefield Campaign.
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New Catalog for 2004-2005 |
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Our 2004-2005 catalog of resources, including an online order form, is now available. Learn about our new curriculum guides, and the titles of upcoming NewsSource units, Issues Today maps and Skills Builders.
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EXTRA: Inside a Refugee's World |
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A Newsweek ThisWeek "Extra!" prepared with the UN Refugee Agency explores the world of a teen-age refugee from Liberia.
Also included are facts, activities, statistics and an entry form for the agency's fourth annual World Refugee Day Poster Contest.
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A New Book From the Newsweek Education Program |
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From the creators of the Newsweek Education Program comes a new guide designed to help students to
help improve their writing skills. Essay Writing Step-By-Step is a great resource to help students develop
crucial writing and critical-thinking skills—tools that will provide lifelong benefits.
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Patriot Act: The Pros And Cons |
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Can the Patriot Act increase security in the United States, or would it infringe on Americans' rights? Click here to read an essay written by student leaders in the Presidential Classroom program. The essay is accompanied by activities that will challenge students to take a stand on the issue.
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2003—The Year in Political Cartoons |
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Political cartoonists use a variety of techniques to comment on current issues. Click here to view the Newsweek ThisWeek Extra, "2003—The Year in Political Cartoons." The Extra is accompanied by activities that will help students develop critical thinking skills by seeing unique cartoon styles applied to a distinct selection of news stories.
By Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Reprinted with permission.
Each week, explore the perspectives, commentary and analysis of editorial cartoonists with our new feature.
Click here for classroom questions related to this week's cartoon.
- NEP interview with Pulitzer prize-winning editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich
Photographs of Baghdad remind Americans of the damage the city sustained during the war. How can a writer create a vivid picture of a scene for readers who may not have access to photographs? Try it yourself. Describe the scene depicted on page 36. In your description, avoid drawing conclusions like, "The city looks devastated." Instead, describe what the city looks, smells, sounds and feels like, and let the reader draw his or her own conclusion about it.
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Kaplan/Newsweek "My Turn" Competition |
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The 2003-2004 Kaplan/Newsweek "My Turn" Essay Competition gives high-school students the
opportunity to win $5,000 for college. For an complete rules, tips for getting started, and an
interactive demonstration of an exemplary "My Turn" Essay, visit our "My Turn" section.
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Prestigious Award for Newsweek Education Program |
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Newsweek Education Program Wins Prestigious Prize From Association Of Educational Publishers
The Newsweek Education Program has won a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of
Educational Publishers for its wall map, "United States Census: The New America." Maureen Costello, the manager
of the Newsweek Education Program, researched and prepared the specifications for the map and accompanying
teacher's guide, while Eliot Bergman designed the map. Resource Manager Ken Paulsen oversaw the development
of the project. Another map, "Changing China," was a finalist in the competition.
NEP's winning entry was in the category of "Young Adult-Posters." An award from the Association of Educational
Publishers is one of the highest recognitions of excellence that can be awarded in this field.
Approximately 1,300 entries were received in more than 30 categories. Judges from within the educational publishing
industry and professional education organizations selected the winners.
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Interactive map: Status of Children Around the World |
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Our new Issues Today wall map, "The Status of Children Around the World," is packed with compelling statistics, facts and activities. Click here for a dynamic interactive demonstration of the main portion of the map, which is part of our fall 2003 resource package.
This presentation uses Flash, a commonly used Web application. To view the presentation, you must have the Macromedia Flash Player software program installed to work with your Web browser. To download a free copy of Flash or find out more information about Flash, click here.
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Interactive Global Water Map |
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Our new Issues Today wall map, "Global Water: Plentiful or Imperiled," offers a wealth of information about a challenge that every nation on earth faces. Click here for an interactive demonstration of the main portion of the map, which is part of our spring 2003 resource package.
This presentation uses Flash, a commonly used Web application. To view the presentation, you must have
the Macromedia Flash Player software program installed to work with your Web browser. To download a free
copy of Flash or find out more information about Flash, click here.
Our pronunciation guide to people, places and other words in the news has been updated to include a glossary-style
listing of definitions for all of the terms. Click here to explore this helpful resource.
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Receive Newsweek ThisWeek via E-mail! |
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The Newsweek ThisWeek weekly teacher's guide is available online for each issue of Newsweek during the school year.
The Newsweek ThisWeek teacher's guide and quiz are also available to Education Program customers via e-mail.
This week's issue of Newsweek reports on the impact of the Google.com Web site and its rising competition; criticizes how the Bush administration got congressional support for the Medicare prescription drug benefit; visits Baghdad a year after the war in Iraq began; and introduces the newest politically motivated radio host, Al Franken. Students explore these topics through two themes of the National Council for the Social Studies: Time, Continuity, and Change and Power, Authority, and Governance. A third activity set has students explore Using Evidence to Support an Argument.
