Almost Everything Students Need to Know About the United Nations

While looking for student-friendly information about the situation in Ukraine I came across the following video from CNN Student News. Every...

CNN Student News Explains Syrian Conflict

Today's episode of CNN Student News begins with a segment on the current state of affairs in Syria. Students watching the segment will ...

CNN Student News Is Back for 2013-2014

The new school year has started for some and will be starting again soon for everyone else. With the start of a new school comes a new seas...

Best of 2013 So Far...5 Places for Kids to Learn About the News

We're half-way through 2013. Like I've done in years past, this week I'll be featuring some of the best new tech tools of 2013 a...

CNN Student News Reviews the News of the School Year

Today is the last day for CNN Student News until the new school year starts in the fall. The bulk of this morning's edition of CNN Stude...

5 Resources to Help Students Learn About Income Taxes

Today is the busiest day of the year for the U.S. Post Office. Why? Because tax returns have to be post marked by today. If you're looki...

CNN Student News Explains Israel-Hamas Conflict

I know plenty of adults who don't understand (and some who don't care to understand) the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Understa...

CNN Student News is Back for 2012-2013

The new school year has started for some and will be starting again soon for everyone else. With the start of a new school comes a new seaso...

CNN Student News Looks to Summer

This morning is the last morning that CNN Student News will have an episode until August 13, 2012. In part of today's episode CNN Stude...

CNN Student News - A Soda Pop Ban?

This morning's episode of CNN Student News has a story about a proposed New York City law that would limit the size of soda pop drinks ...

Video Explanations of IPOs

Your students may have heard that Facebook is going to make an IPO sometime soon. If they haven't heard that or if you haven't heard...

Taxes, Sandstorms, and Tractors

On Friday I shared some resources for teaching about taxes and economics . This morning CNN Student News explains why US income tax filing...

CNN Student News - Elections in Syria and Russia

Today's episode of CNN Student News leads-off with a couple of segment about elections in Syria and Russia. The segment about elections...

CNN Student News 2011 News Quiz

Yesterday, CNN Student News released their last episode for 2011. As you might expect, the episode included a review of some of the year...

CNN Student News - Syria, Peace, and Drones

It has been a long time since I last mentioned CNN Student News so I think it's time to mention again that it is a great resource for t...

What's Happening on Wall Street? - CNN Student News

This morning's edition of CNN Student News is packed with summaries of the weekend's news stories. Today's episode starts off w...

CNN Student News - World Leaders Meet

One of the things I love about the Internet is that almost everyday I find something new that I can use in one of my classes. This morning...

Hurricane Irene and Hurricanes Past

Hurricane Irene is heading up the east coast of the US with more force than we've seen in quite a while. Today's episode of CNN Stud...

Bad News - The Week in Rap Is No Longer a Free Service

For the last couple of years I have promoted Flocabulary's weekly video series  The Week in Rap as a nice little resource for current e...

CNN Student News Will Be Back On Monday

One of my favorite resources for quick current events lessons is CNN Student News . The program has been on hiatus since the end of May. On ...