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Find all our Lessons of the Day here.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “What Is the Coronavirus? Symptoms, Treatment and Risks” by Roni Caryn Rabin.Have you heard anything about the coronavirus? Are people in your school or community concerned about contracting it?The coronavirus is a respiratory virus named for the spikes that protrude from its membrane, which resemble…

Find all our Lessons of the Day here.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Emojis Meet Hieroglyphs: If King Tut Could Text” by Isabel Kershner.A new exhibition at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem explores the complicated relationship between the hieroglyphs of antiquity and emoji, the lingua franca of the digital age.In this lesson, you’ll compare these two sets of…

Find all our Lessons of the Day here.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “The Census Begins Where It Has Struggled Before: Remote, Frozen Alaska”Since 1790, the United States has every 10 years conducted a census, a count of every person living in this country. The results of the census determine congressional representation and federal spending on things like…

Find all our Lessons of the Day here.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “How Fast Can a Human Run?” with text and illustrations by Randall Munroe.“Two legs are good. Four legs might be better,” Randall Munroe writes in today’s featured article.In this lesson, you’ll explore why there is a limit to how fast humans can run, and what…

Find all our Lessons of the Day here.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Rural Montana Had Already Lost Too Many Native Women. Then Selena Disappeared.”In the featured article, Jack Healy covers the ongoing crisis of Native American women who have gone missing or been found murdered in southern Montana. The article states that in 2019, “5,590 Indigenous women…

6. The article concludes:But the jobs are unstable and inconsistent — as in the Peytons’ case, paying too much to qualify for benefits one month, offering too few hours to qualify the next. That is the root of the problem, Mr. Comer said. But addressing it would be a lot more expensive than food stamps.“If…

Find all our Lessons of the Day here.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Sashaying Their Way Through Youth”As recently as the 1970s, dressing as another gender could lead to arrest. Today, L.G.B.T.Q. people are losing their rights and face violence in the United States and around the world. In spite of this, young people are pushing back against…

3. How does Lukaku deal with the racism he has encountered — both emotionally and as a player on the field?4. What factors are connected to the increase in racism at European soccer matches, according to the article?5. Why did Lukaku leave England after nearly eight years of play? Why did he feel that criticisms…

Find all our Lessons of the Day here.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “How’s Your Internship Going? This Teen Found a Planet”Wolf Cukier, a teenager from Scarsdale, N.Y., spent the summer before his senior year interning at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. In his time interning, he identified a body that was later confirmed to…

Find all our Lessons of the Day here.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Two States. Eight Textbooks. Two American Stories.” by Dana GoldsteinThe New York Times analyzed some of the most popular social studies textbooks used in California and Texas. They found hundreds of differences — including some that reflect the nation’s deepest partisan divides on issues like…