NEW 2015 RESOURCES
Current Events Theme Page
This "Theme Page" has links to two types of resources related to the study of current events. Students and teachers will find curricular resources (information, content...) to help them learn about this topic. In addition, there are also links to instructional materials (lesson plans) which will help teachers provide instruction in this theme. Please read our disclaimer.
Academy
Curricular Exchange: Social Studies
- Brief descriptions of lessons in current events.
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AskERIC Lesson Plans - Current Events
- About a dozen lesson plans which cover grades 4-12.
Canada.com
News Café
- Search this Southam Inc. site for Canadian (or International) news stories
up to one week old (or as brief as 6 hours old) by keyword(s). Or, browse
through over 20 Canadian newspapers.
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Canadian Online Explorer (CANOE)
- CANOE has links to such Canadian magazines as Macleans, Chatelaine, Financial
Post, and others from the Toronto Sun Publishing Corporation. Major Canadian
stories are also highlighted daily.
CBC Newsworld
- In addition to links to current news stories, the CBC provides information
on all of their news programming and personalities. Check out their "newslink"
section for instructional materials. Included are a set of student discussion
questions and activities, links to information on the story/topic at other
web sites, and a sample teacher lesson plan. There is also a searchable archive
of each day's stories and activities.
CNN Newsroom Daily Classroom Guide
- CNN NEWSROOM/CNN NEWSROOM WorldView is a free, 30-minute block of commercial-free
news and features programming accompanied by a Daily Classroom Guide, developed
especially for school use.
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Ecola Directories: Newsstand:Newspapers
- A meta-list of links to newspapers around the world - organized by continent
and by country. There is also a search engine for a particular publication
name.
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Encarta
Lesson Collection: Social Studies
- Select "Social Studies" on their Lesson Collection Page and then "Current
Events/Issues" to find over a dozen lesson plans.
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Enews.com
- Enews.com provides students with a search engine to a large and diverse
set of electronic magazines.
[The] Globe and Mail
- The Globe and Mail provides a forum for the discussion of national issues
as well as a link to daily news.
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Journalism Theme Page
- This CLN Theme Page has links to curricular and instructional materials
resources for Journalism students and teachers.
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My
Virtual Newspaper
- In addition to a news search engine, this site provides links to over 500
online newspapers which can be accessed by country/region. There are over
100 Canadian newspapers listed as well.
News
Centre
- This site provides links to news media around the world as well as links
to reference resources on the web.
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News
Resource
- An extensive meta-list of links to resources to news from various media
(radio, tv, newspaper) organized by continent, then by country, then by province
(for example).
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New
York Times Learning Network: Current Events
- Each day, the New York Times produces a lesson plan to help teachers introduce
students to one of the newspaper's main articles. This link is to their archive
of lesson plans that support articles that could be considered "current events."
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Online Newshour
- PBS and MacNeil/Lehrer Productions have created a news page with frequent
updates of the daily news, forums for the discussion of current events, and
essays. The archives are browsable by topic or searchable by key word.
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Online Newspapers
- A meta-list of links to newspapers around the world - organized alphabetically
by country.
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Teaching
Current Events via Newspapers, Magazines and TV
- Here are links to 9 different sources of lesson plans for teaching current
events.
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The Internet Public Library
- A meta-list of links to newspapers around the world - organized alphabetically
by country or by continent.
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Total
News
- A news search engine.
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Twenty
Five Great Ideas for Teaching Current Events
- From Education World, this article has 25 activities designed to help teachers
use newspapers in the classroom to help students make sense of the news.
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Ultimate
Collection of Newslinks
- A meta list with over 10,000 links to online newspapers and magazines.
Choose by country or search by type. Canadian newspapers are well represented
(over 300) and organized by province.

Note: The sites listed above will serve as a source of curricular content in Current Events. For other resources in Social Studies (e.g., curricular content, lesson plans, and theme pages), click the "previous screen" button below. Or, click here if you wish to return directly to the CLN menu which will give you access to educational resources in all of our subjects.