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Published weekly by Time magazine, TFK contains non-fiction articles geared toward kids. Each week has a theme and worksheets that accompany. TFK can be accessed two ways - one is the physical magazine, sent weekly to your school. It is fee based, but comes with student copies and a TE which includes enrichment worksheets. TFK can also be accessed online and individual articles can be printed. A quiz for the entire edition is available weekly online, along with hundreds of free, sortable worksheets.

Richard Louv is the author of _Last Child in the Woods_, associated with the term "nature deficit disorder" and a co-founder of the Children & Nature Network. This article is a good overview of his ideas.

This is a link to the web edition of the Spanish language newspaper "Hoy". It is useful because it allows students to read about local news in Spanish. It is also interesting to read an article on the same topic from an English language newspaper and a Spanish language newspaper and investigate the differences in opinion.

Good article

NYT article on research suggesting that computers at home show little impact of student test scores, and for lower income households, may result in lower scores.

"Open source educational software is rapidly gaining adoption in a wide array of teaching environments." List of open source apps by function and what apps they replace.

Some interesting applications here...