Current Events

Over the last two weeks I learned more about what is happening globally than I have in a full year. Current Events was huge with the Social Studies department at my highschool. The activity took up 20-3- minutes everyday, given the classes are 2.5 hours long. When I was asked to do some current events for one class I had to actively research the night before and was amazed and what the kids found themselves. Here's a site I used to speed up the process:

http://digg.com/news/.

I probably wouldn't suggest students visit this site only because there can be some questionable material on it. I would use it as a conversation starter and fun way to start current events. My favourite way to start the class was when teachers would use humour to relax the class, and using a funny global story could do that work for you.