A World of Current
Events Activities
Clear and comprehensive methods to build geography and critical thinking skills while immersing your classroom in modern history
Maps are just the beginning
The newest edition of the Nystrom Desk Atlas enables students to visualize the world’s lands and peoples, compare continents, and understand environmental, economic, and cultural issues.
Activities to Build Student Skills
Both our Current Events and Mapping the News activities inform students about trending topics and give them a sense of being part of history as it happens.
Each individual activity has a combination of components that build a variety of important skills including:
- Critical thinking
- Primary source analysis
- Group collaboration
- Compare and contrast
- Mapping skills
- Close reading
- Writing
Available in Digital and Print
The Current Events and Mapping the News series are exclusive to our digital platforms, Active Classroom and Nystrom World.
Available to access digitally, teachers can have students complete the activities on one of our digital platforms or print the activities for a blended classroom experience.
Mapping the News
A new series on our Active Classroom and Nystrom World digital platforms, Mapping the News is an interactive series of activities that take an in-depth look at current global issues and makes them tangible by contextualizing them in geography. Students use different sources of information to digitally map trends.
Series Topics:
- United States Military Alliances
- Supply Chains in the United States
- The Global Water Crisis
- Biodiversity and Ecosystem Loss: Where Are the Hotspots
- The United States and Iran
- American Indian Lands
Current Events
Aligned to meet state and national social studies standards, our digital Current Events series helps students examine trending topics in the United States and around the globe. Students explore asking and answering essential questions about topics that impact their world view.
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