Research has shown that children today know less and care less about what's going on in the world than youngsters of previous generations. Teachers have the important task of gaining students' attention in the area of current events. So the question remains. What can be done to raise students' interest in and awareness of the stories making news headlines? Teachers need to be aware of the fact that the more exposure students have to newspapers …showed first 75 words of 614 total…

…showed last 75 words of 614 total…latitude is a skill your students are expected to master, students might plot each location's longitude and latitude to the nearest degree. These are just a few of the many ways current events can be intermingled with the regular curriculum in the classroom. If done in a fun and creative way, teachers can open their students' minds to a completely new world of current events that extend much farther than the boundaries of a newspaper.