World Capitals Quiz
Do you know the capital of Austria? What about Mozambique? How many of these 40 capital cities can you name?
The World’s Best Quarantiners
Cicadas are know for making noises as loud as a lawn mower, or about 90 decibels. That’s loud enough for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to require hearing protection. So, be sure to bring your ear plugs if you want to see these little bugs.If you were alive in 2004, you might remember the…
Lesson of the Day: ‘One of the World’s Oldest Science Experiments Comes Up From...
Going FurtherOption 1: Learn more about seed storage projectsHave you heard or read about other seed storage projects, including perhaps the two mentioned in the article — the doomsday-prevention crop seed vaults and Indigenous food sovereignty efforts? Read the two excerpts below to learn a bit more.“Arks of the Apocalypse,” by Malia Wollan, focuses on…
Explore the World With These 100 Country Quizzes
How much do you know about Cape Verde? What about Colombia, Bangladesh or Montenegro?Since 2017, the Learning Network has been publishing a five-question “Country of the Week” quiz based on The New York Times’s travel coverage, news reporting and photojournalism to help build students’ geography skills.Each Monday morning during the school year we release a…
What Are the Places in the World That You Love Most?
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.For the past many Januaries, The New York Times has published a Travel section mainstay: a list of 52 destinations around the world, complete with gorgeous photography. Last year’s list has the tagline “We picked destinations to…
World Series
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 2021.“The shortest and strangest season in Major League Baseball history will finish with a clash of coasts and contrasts. The Los Angeles Dodgers and the Tampa Bay Rays — big spenders and bargain hunters — will crown one…
Coronavirus Quarantine May Ignite an Online Education Boom
The coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, has been deemed a public health emergency and has been provoking fear for those looking to fulfill their educational dreams. This virus has emerged from China and has now been found starting to spread within the United States. This outbreak has come with many economic and social complications that…
Do You Think the World Is Getting Closer to Securing the Promise of ‘Never...
What do you think? What does “Never again” me to you? Do you feel that genocide is still possible in 2020?Do you think the world has learned the lessons of history? Is international law stronger? Is education better? Is the media too omnipresent to allow a systematic campaign of hatred and violence against any minority…
World’s Big Sleep Out
On Dec. 7, thousands of people spent the night sleeping outside in cities across the world. As explained in a recent Times article:The gathering on Saturday, called the World’s Big Sleep Out, was organized by Josh Littlejohn, the owner of a chain of Scottish sandwich shops and an advocate for providing jobs, shelter and housing…
Around the World in 5 Kids’ Games
On every schoolyard across the world you will find games invented by children. Hand-clapping routines, rhyming stanzas and intricate rules for tiny competitions; games born of the creativity, insight and idiosyncrasy of children’s minds. In New York City’s diverse playgrounds, kids play games in Haitian Creole, Korean, Spanish, Arabic and Polish, just to name a…
