Curriculum Guides

Rivers provide food and drinking water, transport and economic welfare, entertainment and relaxation. They may be clean or polluted, depending on how people, industry and government use, disregard, rehabilitate and protect them. Post reprints and suggested activities examine plastics, ghost ships, revival of coral reefs and fish; citizen science and methods provide opportunities.

Whether bitter for baking chocolate or sweet for bars and candies, cocoa is part of our lives. A darker side of chocolate lies in flavanols, deforestation and child laborers. Business, economics, personal finance, botany and environment concerns, and the rights of children are all involved in these issues.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s announcement of the initiation of official impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump began a rare and historic constitutional process. The U.S. Constitution steps to impeachment, the reasons for this decision, and its historic context are covered in this guide. Ukraine and the Whistleblower Protection Act are also introduced.

Every section of the newspaper in print and online has the potential to stimulate student discussion, debate and discourse. Express Your Concerns provides models of short reflections on items that might be tossed from our contemporary culture, guidelines for writing about health issues, an examination of an art exhibit and a play review that seeks viewers and readers to express what the Constitution means to them.