Current Events Awareness
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Web is very volatile, and TKI has no control over outside websites. Please let
us know if you find a broken link or if you have an update for a link. Te Kete
Ipurangi recommends that teachers view all websites we link to before using
them with students.
This Hot Topic is a round-up of Internet materials about current events,
with an emphasis on news sites created especially for teachers and students.
The topic is relevant to the Social
Studies Curriculum's "Time, Continuity and Change" strand, as well
as the perspective "Current Issues".
News sites for students
and teachers
America's ABC
News 4 Kids posts new stories aimed at junior and middle students.
Each news article has an interactive, animated presentation. The site
includes an archive of previous articles.
America's Public Broadcasting Service site has a weekly-updated section
called News Hour Extras, which
"makes connections between world events and the lives of teenagers."
Star Tribune Online
Idea, from The Minneapolis/St Paul Star Tribune, features monthly
and weekly classroom activities, a daily online news quiz, and an online
catalogue of materials.
TIME for Kids features newsmakers
and events, short historic biographies, a cartoon of the week, and online quizzes.
Current events classroom activities
The assessment material
"Talkback Host" relates to New Zealand Social Studies Achievement
Standard 1.5. The material examines the process of "deciding on a social
action in relation to a social issue." It focuses on the reporting by
local newspapers and regional radio stations of national events and local
issues.
The School Daily is an
education-specific online newspaper which includes a daily current events
quiz for students.
The level 4 Drama section in the Arts Curriculum draft support material,
Unwrapping the Arts, has a learning example called
"Scenes on Current Issues". It has students devise scenes using conventions
(eg mimed activity, overheard conversations) to explain events leading
up to a current issue.
"Twenty-Five
Great Ideas for Teaching Current Events", from Education World, features
ideas for using current events in teaching social studies.
General news sites
TKI has links to several national and international online
news services.
Major New Zealand papers online include the New
Zealand Herald, INL's Stuff,
the Otago Daily Times, and the InfoTech
Weekly.
Our Journalism
Hot Topic has links to many of the web sites of major newspapers,
TV stations and radio stations. It also features links to media-criticism
sites which deal with interpreting the news and how the news media works.
Scoop is New Zealand's main free
Internet-only news operation.
Media criticism
Some of the many sites analysing the reporting of current events include:
Please note: These links were valid when this page was posted. However the Web is very volatile, and TKI has no control over outside websites. Please let us know if you find anything inappropriate, if you find a broken link, or if you have an update for a link by emailing links@tki.org.nz. Te Kete Ipurangi recommends that teachers view all websites we link to before using them with students.
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