Current+Event+Resources

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__** News **__
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A weekly summary of current events and news presented in a video with rap lyrics.

An interactive map that allows you to navigate articles, photos, video and commentary from around the globe. Discover news hot-spots where coverage is clustered. Use the timeline to illustrate peaks in coverage, and customize your news searches to a particular day or specific hour.

**CNN Student News** Features news videos, transcripts, maps, learning activities, questions and newsquiz.

**Dougal Littell Current Events ** Provides links to news stories as well as World History, Economics, and Geography throughout the world. No videos. A good, but short weekly current events quiz is provided.

**The New York Times Learning Network** This site includes news summaries, articles, lesson plans, crosswords and other activities. A quiz on news events with links to the articles.
 * **The New York Times Daily News Quiz**

**Parade Classroom** A wide variety of student activities and sheets are provided to be used with teaching students newspaper and reading skills. Lesson plans are also posted along with an archive. This site also has a weekly news quiz which can be taken online or printed.

Aggregated headlines and a search engine containing many of the world's news sources. A slide show of daily quotes and photos from people in the news.
 * Google News**
 * Quotes of the Day by Time and CNN**

__** Photos **__
> Pictures in slide shows featuring news events throughout the world.
 * **The Week in Pictures by MSNBC**

> Photos in a slide show featuring weekly news events throughout the world
 * **Pictures of the Week by Time and CNN**

> A daily slide show featuring photos taken each day from throughout the world.
 * **The Day in Photos by The Washington Post**

> Features photojournalism from around the world.
 * **The Day in Pictures by the USA Today**

> Daily photos placed in a monthly slide show
 * **Today in Pictures by Time and CNN**

__ **Cartoons** __
> Political cartoons and slide shows are featured.
 * **The Week in Political Cartoons by MSNBC**

> Cartoons of weekly current events are provided.
 * **Cartoons of the Week by Time and CNN**