4 Excellent News Resources for Young Kids ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning May 3, 2015Great Websites for Kids is an excellent platform that reviews websites geared towards kids up to age 14. The reviews are carried out by members of the Association for Library Service to Children which is a division of the American Library Association. The websites reviewed are organized into eight categories: social sciences, sciences, reference desk, mathematics and computers, literature and languages, history and biography, arts, and animals. We have spent sometime browsing through these collections and we found them really wonderful for elementary teachers. Here are some examples of some very good websites that kids can use to access content, news and events written specifically for them. These websites are featured in the category Social Sciences under the tab News and Current Events: 1- DOGOnews This is a portal created by the popular news outlet CNN. 3- Scholastic News for Your Classroom 4- Time for Kids
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Visually Explore Current Events 100 Images at a Time In another post earlier today I shared a couple of ways for students to find current events stories by browsing maps. Another way to try to get students interested in news stories is to have them browse through images connected to stories. Ten by Ten is one of my favorite sites for that purpose. Ten by Ten presents visitors with a grid of 100 images linked to current events stories. Every hour the top 100 news stories from around the world are linked to images on a ten by ten grid. Little Libraries have people thinking (and reading) outside the box MADISON, Wis. – Todd Bol wanted to honor his mother, a former teacher and book lover who died a decade ago. So two years ago, Bol built a miniature model of a library, filled it with books for anyone to take, and placed it outside his home in Hudson, Wis. He says people loved it. "People just kept coming up to it, looking at it, patting it, saying 'oh, it's cute,' " Bol recalls. From that idea, hundreds of similar Little Free Libraries are popping up on lawns across the country. PHOTOS: Little Libraries around Wisconsin But they all hold books. "Take a book, leave a book," says Bol, explaining in a nutshell, the basic concept of these tiny libraries. After building the first library, Bol thought the idea had potential to spread. Together, they have helped launch a small, but growing movement. The men provide logistical assistance and support to people who want to become mini-librarians. Today, Little Free Libraries can be found in at least 24 states and eight countries, Brooks says.
Two Ways to Explore the News Through Maps When teaching students about current events I have always tried to incorporate maps so that students can make a connection to the places that they are reading about. I do this if the story is about something happening in Africa or something happening twenty miles down the road from our community. Newspaper Map and the Breaking News map are both helpful in showing students the connections between story subjects and their corresponding locations. Newspaper Map is a neat tool for locating and reading newspapers from locations all around the world. Breaking News presents a constant stream of headlines from around the world. Applications for Education A common assignment in social studies courses is to have students find, review, and share current events stories.
10 Graphic Novels for the Literary Minded As graphic novels continue to become more widely accepted by the general public, I encounter more and more people unsure about where to start reading. There's a lot of product out there, which can make it difficult to find the right entry point. Additionally, many pick the wrong entry point and tend to run screaming from the medium. But when you read a bad book, you don't swear off books, you just swear off that author, or perhaps that genre. The same should be true for Graphic Novels. For fans of detective fiction: 'Stumptown' by Greg Rucka (writer), Matthew Southworth (artist), Lee Loughridge and Rico Renzi (colors). A tightly plotted detective story that follows P.I. Buy Stumptown, Vol. 1 from Amazon.com If you like this, also try: 'Alias Vol. 1' by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos, 'Batwoman: Elegy' by Greg Rucka and J.H. For fans of sci-fi: 'Black Hole' by Charles Burns (writer/artist). Buy Black Hole from Amazon.com Buy Friends with Boys from Amazon.com
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