The New York Times on the Web Learning Network is Top-Notch!

This is aimed towards students and educators grades 3 - 12, and is updated daily.  There is so much here, I will try to break it down for you:

News Summaries - Short summaries of the daily events throughout the world, you can turn on the vocabulary keys and geography keys to help you along the way.

Daily News Quiz - My favorite!  Your student hunts through the various news stories to find the answers that are missing in the story, all answers can be found in the news for that day. You submit your answers, and it will let you know how well you did.

Word of the Day - Great way to build vocabulary.  It offers a daily word, tells you how many times in the last year the word has appeared in print in the N.Y. Times, and lists the articles, and gives an example on how the word is used. You can also HEAR the word pronounced through the Visual Thesaurus.

Test Prep Question of the Day - Gives a paragraph with a missing word, the student is to choose the word that fits best and then explain why it was chosen. This page also offers strategies for answering the question.

Also on the main page are feature articles, with links for related lesson plans, you can find activities and articles by subject, American History, Civics, Math and Economics, Fine Arts, Geography, Global History, Language Arts, Science and Health, Social Studies and Technology are all available from the front page.

Take a look and see what is offered, I hope you are inspired!