The Newseum in Washington D.C. is one of Education Officer Tim Ralph's favourite places in the world, and well worth a visit if you're ever in Washington. But their website is also an incredible tool for classroom use. If you discuss current events with your students, you have to check out the Newseum's Today's Front Pages map.
This amazing tool displays interactive maps, organized by continent. Hover over any of the yellow dots, and you see a thumbnail of the current day's newspaper front page from that city. Click on the thumbnail to view a larger image or a readable pdf of the front page, as well as a live link to the full website of that newspaper.
This is an incredible tool which could be used by students during independent reading, for group research, or for whole group instruction. Imagine comparing and contrasting how newspapers around the world report on the same news topics.
Check out Today's Front Page soon; you and your students will love it
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