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In the News
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1. Determining whether online news can be trusted

2. Context
  • Click the image to the right for the details. 
  • Amnesty International
  • CIA World Fact Book (comprehensive information about the world's countries)​​
  • Classroom country profiles
  • Climate Central
  • The Conversation
  • Current events in historical perspective (Ohio State U.)​
  • Development Education
  • Exodus (video about immigration)
  • Exodus: The journey continues
  • Freedom House
  • Freedom in the world (map - ranking of countries on 100-point scale measuring civil liberties and political rights) (Freedom House)
  • Globalchange.gov
  • Global Climate Change (NASA)
  • Global living conditions, a short history of (Our World in Data)
  • Global Fire Dashboard (Greenpeace)
  • Human Rights Watch
  • International Rescue Committee
  • Invisible made visible, a video on the pervasive  emission of (invisible) carbon dioxide
  • Middle East and North Africa (World Bank)
  • NASA Climate Kids
  • National Geography Resource Library
  • News Literacy Project
  • Newspapers in education
  • Nongovernmental organizations (list of 100 NGOs)
  • Our World in Data
  • Parents Guide to Twitter
  • ReliefWeb
  • UN High Commission for Refugees
  • UN Refugee Agency
  • Visual Capitalist (infographics)
  • What are rights? (analysis of the types of rights -- civil, human, natural, etc.)
  • World Economic Forum
  • World Food Program (UN)
  • World health risks (WHO)
  • WorldMapper (visual representations of current trends​​
  • Youth for Human Rights
3. News (bolded sites are more accessible)
  • BBC Reality Check
  • Behind the News (short videos for HS students produced by ABC, Australia's news service)
  • CBC Kids News
  • CNN 10​
  • CNN VR (virtual reality videos)
  • Coda (alternative journalism)
  • DogoNews
  • Facing History and Ourselves (Current Events)
  • Fareed Zakaria's columns
  • Google News (aggregates many newspapers)
  • HuffPost Teen
  • International News Stories (Pulitzer Center)
  • KidsPost (Washington Post)
  • National Geographic Kids
  • NBC News Learn
  • New York Times Video
  • New York Times 360 (virtual reality)
  • New York Times Learning Network
  • New York Times Global Issues
  • News Decoder
  • Newsela (sign in with school account)
  • News in levels (same article at different reading levels)
  • PBS News Hour Extra
  • TeenTribune
  • Today's front pages (Newseum)
  • Voice of America
  • Vox
  • Youngzine





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  • Current Courses
    • Early World History (home)
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    • Modern World History (home)
  • Resources
    • Study skills
    • In the news
    • History (general)
    • Geography
    • Podcasts