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2023-2024 Invention Ed Fellows

Educator Voices March 15 2024

Get to Know the 2023-2024 Invention Education Fellows

Meet NewsHour Classroom's 2023-24 Invention Fellows!

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Lesson Plan March 14 2024

What is invention education? Explainer and lesson plans where students are the inventors!

Teach students how to design their own inventions that help their communities

On Our Minds nature

Daily News Lesson June 07 2023

Teen podcast: How nature helps you get outside of yourself

Discuss an episode of the On Our Minds teen mental health podcast on getting out in nature

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Daily News Lesson March 19 2023

Top Lesson: 5,000-mile-long mass of seaweed coming to shore + News wrap 3/20/23 + Student video

The 10-million ton mass changes in size from month to month with the peak generally hitting in the summer

Oceans

Daily News Lesson March 06 2023

Top stories: Historic deal to protect oceans + News wrap 3/6/23 + Student video

Learn about an international treaty that aims to protect marine life outside any country's borders

Invention-Ed-Fellows

Educator Voices March 02 2023

Get to Know the 2022-2023 Invention Education Fellows

Meet NewsHour Classroom's 2022-23 Invention Fellows!

Invention-Ed-Fellows

Daily News Lesson March 02 2023

Get to Know PBS News Hour Classroom's Invention Education Fellows

Meet NewsHour Classroom's 2022-23 Invention Fellows!

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Daily News Lesson January 12 2023

Top stories! Using heat pumps instead of fossil fuels + News wrap 1/12/23 + Student video

Will the move help reduce the negative effects on our environment from global warming?

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Daily News Lesson March 06 2022

Cow burps are a major contributor to climate change — can scientists change that?

Find out how scientists are reducing methane from cow burps, a major contributor to greenhouse gases

CORRECTION Western Megadrought Record

Daily News Lesson February 15 2022

Western states face challenging future amid the worst drought in more than 1,000 years

Hear how a historic drought in the U.S. West may affect life there in the future, and what can be done about it

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