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CNN 10-- Welcome to CNN 10, a daily commercial-free, ten-minute broadcast of the day's news geared for middle- and high-school students.
If you'd prefer, you can download CNN 10 to your desktop or iPod. Go to the CNN.com Podcast page and look for the CNN 10 podcast. Once you've signed up for the free subscription, every episode will automatically be downloaded to iTunes.
If you'd prefer, you can download CNN 10 to your desktop or iPod. Go to the CNN.com Podcast page and look for the CNN 10 podcast. Once you've signed up for the free subscription, every episode will automatically be downloaded to iTunes.
The world population is closing in on 7 billion people. This clock shows population growth and other topics from crime to illnesses to deaths.
Newsela is free for students to explore a world of nonfiction and test their comprehension. Updated daily with real-world news from major publications, students can participate in conversation about the most urgent topics of our time, all while becoming stronger readers.
Prezi slide show presentation introducing the R.A.C.E. writing strategy.
It is hard to represent our spherical world on flat piece of paper. Cartographers use something called a "projection" to morph the globe into 2D map. The most popular of these is the Mercator projection.
Every map projection introduces distortion, and each has its own set of problems. One of the most common criticisms of the Mercator map is that it exaggerates the size of countries nearer the poles (US, Russia, Europe), while downplaying the size of those near the equator (the African Continent). On the Mercator projection Greenland appears to be roughly the same size as Africa. In reality, Greenland is 0.8 million sq. miles and Africa is 11.6 million sq. miles, nearly 14 and a half times larger.