FOCUS on the NEWS™ weekly quiz game makes keeping up with the news fun for students and easy for teachers. Just print the weekly PDF with the quiz game, current events geography lesson and corresponding crossword puzzle and you've got your week's current events lesson plan.
Whether you're an Academic Coach, a Current Events, Journalism or Geography Teacher or a Homeschool Parent, you'll find FOCUS on the NEWS™ weekly quiz game, MAPmaster and crossword puzzle a complete weekly current events curriculum resource. Request a free PDF sample today to try in your classroom.
Teachers and coaches use FOCUS on the NEWS™ to prepare students for academic competitions like the National Current Events League (NCEL) and the UIL Current Issues & Events competitions and other similar state, regional and local current events competitions around the country.
We also serve Geography teachers looking for Current Events Geography lesson plans for their students in grades 4-12. Our subscribers range from gifted elementary education teachers to alternative education and literacy programs for adult learners and all grades in-between.
FOCUS on the NEWS™ helps motivate your students to read and watch the news to compete in a popular TV game show-style weekly quiz game. Each issue contains 66 questions in the eight categories of: World, Nation, Government, Science, Sports, Entertainment, History and Roundup. Teachers are supplied everything they need to conduct weekly quizzes with weighted questions sorted by category and easy access to answers. Each week’s issue also includes a current events crossword puzzle, a MAPmaster Geography worksheet with a Geography lesson plan featuring a country making headlines and a 10-question NEWSmasters Quiz worksheet.
Since 1971, Key Publications has been delivering quality current events curriculum to the classroom. Many teachers remember how much they looked forward to quiz matches with FOCUS on the NEWS™ when they were students and now enthusiastically use it as the keystone of their own media study program.
The map below shows a sampling of some of the schools that subscribe to FOCUS on the NEWS™ throughout the country:
