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• A Visit to Italy

  Description:

        Explore Italy with this reproducible map.

  
  

• Olympics, Then and Now

  Description:

        Use this reproducible to compare and contrast the ancient Olympics with today's Games.

  
  

• Our First President

  Description:

        Give your students practice reading for details with this reproducible story of George Washington's life.

  
  

• Dear Mr. President

  Description:

        Encourage your students to voice their opinions to the President with this reproducible letter-writing activity.

  
  

• You Be the Reporter!

  Description:

        Students can create their own newspaper on the Winter Olympic Games with this reproducible.

  
  

• Interview a Woman in Your Life

  Description:

        To celebrate Women's History Month, have students interview a woman whom they admire.

  
  

• Homophones Happen

  Description:

        Challenge students to identify the correct homophone with this reproducible.

  
  

• A Visit to New Orleans?

  Description:

        A map-reading reproducible highlighting the French Quarter

  
  

• Can You Find It?

  Description:

        Challenge students to find nonfiction text features and other items in this week's issue with this reproducible

  
  

• Summarizing

  Description:

        Teach summarizing skills with this graphic organizer

  
  

• Clues From the Bones

  Description:

        Challenge your students to match each fact about Kennewick Man to a conclusion that can be drawn from the fact.

  
  

• Find the Sugar

  Description:

        Give your students practice reading a chart with this reproducible that shows how much sugar is added to some foods.

  
  

• Smoking Can Hurt Your Body

  Description:

        Explore the effects of smoking on different parts of the body with this reproducible.

  
  

• Coming to America

  Description:

        Have your students reflect on the immigrant experience with this reproducible.

  
  

• Say it with Similes

  Description:

        Give your students practice identifying and writing similes with this reproducible.

  
  

• Recycle That Trash

  Description:

        Have students learn about recycling rates in the U.S. with this graphing reproducible.

  
  

• From Trash to Treasure

  Description:

        Encourage students to recycle with this chart-reading reproducible.

  
  

• A Global Market

  Description:

        This activity page asks students to collect items, find out where they are made or grown and explain why the items are useful. Students then fill in a chart with the information.

  
  

• A Day in the Life

  Description:

        Provide students with some background knowledge of China with this reproducible schedule showing a day in the life of a seven-year-old boy in China.

  
  

• Is That a Fact?

  Description:

        A student activity page on identifying fact and opinion

  
  

• You're a Cover Star!

  Description:

        Using this activity page, students can design their own TFK cover

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: Lights Out

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: Somewhere Safe

  
  

• My Earthquake Fact Book

  Description:

        Use this page on earthquake facts with younger students.

  
  

• Meet an Orangutan

  Description:

        Give your students practice reading a diagram with this reproducible of an orangutan.

  
  

• Reading for Information

  Description:

        Challenge students to show what they know about a TFK article of their choice with this reproducible graphic organizer.

  
  

• Riders for Health News

  Description:

        Check student comprehension of the week's cover story with this graphic organizer

  
  

• Rosa and Me

  Description:

        Students can learn about a young Rosa Park with this chart-reading activity

  
  

• Science News

  Description:

        A reproducible highlighting the features of a news story

  
  

• Get Moving!

  Description:

        Challenge students and their family members to think about their fitness goals with this reproducible.

  
  

• Five a Day

  Description:

        Teach your students about the five food groups with this reproducible chart.

  
  

• Energy Found in Nature

  Description:

        A chart highlighting renewable energy sources

  
  

• Pitch in For the Planet

  Description:

        Students can reflect on ways to conserve energy at school and at home

  
  

• A Time Line of Fun and Games

  Description:

        Give your students practice building a time line with this reproducible using toy and game inventions.

  
  

• Invention Matchup

  Description:

        Challenge your students to match the clues to the inventions.

  
  

• Think Like an Inventor

  Description:

        Put your students in the inventor's shoes. This reproducible asks students to think about how they would improve some common inventions.

  
  

• Headline News

  Description:

        See if your students can put the headlines into the correct news categories.

  
  

• Looking at a Photo

  Description:

        Give your students practice analyzing a photo with this reproducible graphic organizer.

  
  

• Dr. King's Life and Dreams

  Description:

        Have students complete this reproducible graphic organizer as they read the cover story on Martin Luther King Jr.

  
  

• Martin Luther King Jr.

  Description:

        Give your students practice reading a time line with this reproducible time line of important events in the life of Dr. King.

  
  

• Mysterious Pluto

  Description:

        Build background knowledge on Pluto with this reproducible chart.

  
  

• Mission to Pluto

  Description:

        Give your students practice reading a diagram with this reproducible of the New Horizons spacecraft.

  
  

• Our Solar System

  Description:

        Explore the solar system with this reproducible.

  
  

• Life as an Elephant

  Description:

        Introduce elephant adaptations to your students with this reproducible diagram of an elephant.

  
  

• Elephant Math

  Description:

        Give students practice solving word problems with this reproducible.

  
  

• New Words

  Description:

        Build students' vocabulary before reading Room to Roam with this reproducible highlighting words from the cover story.

  
  

• On Thin Ice

  Description:

        Students read and answers questions on an article about polar bears.

  
  

• Events in My Life

  Description:

        Encourage your students to reflect on important events in their own life with this reproducible.

  
  

• A Year of News

  Description:

        Look back on some of the important events and people of 2004 with this word search.

  
  

• Tsunami Science

  Description:

        A reproducible that shows how a tsunami forms

  
  

• "Saving Jaguars" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on efforts to save jaguars

  
  

• Meet the Jaguar

  Description:

        A diagram on jaguar adaptations

  
  

• "The Cassini-Huygens Mission" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the landing of the Huygens probe on Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

  
  

• Saturn's Many Moons

  Description:

        A diagram showing nine of Saturn's moons

  
  

• A Map of Iraq

  Description:

        Reinforce map-reading skills with this reproducible map of Iraq.

  
  

• Learning About Global Warming

  Description:

        Guide your students' reading of the cover story with this reproducible graphic organizer on global warming.

  
  

• Across the Arctic Ocean

  Description:

        Give your students practice drawing conclusions with this reproducible list of supplies that Bancroft and Arnesen will take on their Arctic trek.

  
  

• The North and South Poles

  Description:

        Teach students about the differences between the Arctic and Antarctica with this reproducible chart.

  
  

• Mirror Images Ocean

  Description:

        Explore symmetry with the reproducible on page 3.

  
  

• Is It Right or Write?

  Description:

        Build vocabulary with this reproducible on homophones.

  
  

• What Does the Label Say?

  Description:

        Teach your students how to read a nutrition food label.

  
  

• Healthy Eating

  Description:

        Have students use this chart-reading activity to learn more about healthy fruits and vegetables.

  
  

• A Mission to Mars

  Description:

        Use this reproducible application form to have students reflect on why they would make good team members on a future mission to Mars.

  
  

• The Secretary of State

  Description:

        Teach your students about the secretary of state's job with this reproducible chart.

  
  

• In the News

  Description:

        Have students show what they learned in this week's issue of TFK.

  
  

• Go Back in Time: Mexico

  Description:

        Use the Mexico Timeline to answer questions about cause and effect.

  
  

• Go Back in Time: Kenya

  Description:

        Use the Kenya Timeline to answer questions about cause and effect

  
  

• Homeland Hero: Kenya

  Description:

        Read about a Kenyan hero and use the guide to help write an movie script

  
  

• A Voice From Vietnam

  Description:

        Compare and contrast your life with that of a Vietnamese boy

  
  

• Government Branches

  Description:

        Read about the jobs and powers of the three branches of government

  
  

• Get Water-Wise

  Description:

        Study a graph to find out how much water Americans use at home each day

  
  

• Get to Know TFK

  Description:

        Explore the different parts of TFK magazine

  
  

• Honor the 9/11 Anniversary: A Resource for Teachers

  Description:

        See what TFK teachers are doing to commemorate the event and enhance their civics curriculum. Plus, reference an age-appropriate book list

  
  

• Using the Internet

  Description:

        Make the most out of your students' time on the Internet with this information guide

  
  

• Cross-Curriculum Project Guide

  Description:

        Learn how to create a cross-curriculum project

  
  

• Evaluating Web Sites

  Description:

        Use this guide to determine which web sites are reliable resources of information

  
  

• Evaluating Web Sites

  Description:

        Use this guide to determine which web sites are reliable resources of information

  
  

• Verb Study: Action Verbs

  Description:

        Identify the action verbs in a variety of sentences

  
  

• News Clues

  Description:

        Use this week's cover story to answer comprehension questions

  
  

• Proud to be an American

  Description:

        Read and respond to quotations about democracy, justice and character

  
  

• A World of Continents

  Description:

        Identify Afghanistan on a world map and answer questions based on the map

  
  

• Read All About It

  Description:

        Identify the headline and main idea of a news article and answer critical thinking questions

  
  

• Parts of a Butterfly

  Description:

        Use a diagram to identify various parts of a butterfly

  
  

• Creatures on the Move

  Description:

        Use a chart to learn more about alien invaders and answer questions

  
  

• Science News

  Description:

        Identify steps in the scientific method in science news stories

  
  

• Reading a Science Article

  Description:

        Use these reading tips while reading a science article

  
  

• Vocabulary Word Map

  Description:

        Use this word map to help students define and remember new science words

  
  

• A Day at the Fair

  Description:

        Plan a day at the fair using the information found in an advertisement

  
  

• Test Prep with TFK

  Description:

        Help students prepare for standardized testing with these practice tests with a variety of multiple choice and open-ended questions

  
  

• Word Map

  Description:

        Practice dictionary skills with this vocabulary activity

  
  

• Exploring Pluto

  Description:

        Read a chart about Pluto and then answer questions based on the chart

  
  

• "We Need Rain" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach the 9/13/02 cover story: Droughts

  
  

• "Come to the Fair" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach the 10/11/02 cover story: State Fairs

  
  

• "This Is Gym Class?" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach the 9/20/02 cover story: Physical Education

  
  

• "Coming Home" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach the 9/27/02 cover story: Afghanistan

  
  

• "The Aliens Have Landed!" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach the 10/04/02 cover story: Nonnative Species

  
  

• News Clues

  Description:

        Use the cover story "Alien Invasion" to answer comprehension questions

  
  

• "From Books to Movies" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Entertainment

  
  

• "Election 2002" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Elections

  
  

• News Clues

  Description:

        Use articles from this week's issue to answer questions

  
  

• "Is Pluto Really a Planet?" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach the 10/25/02 cover story: Space

  
  

• "Backstage at the Zoo" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Zoo

  
  

• Zoo Family

  Description:

        Use this week's cover story to complete sentences

  
  

• News Watch

  Description:

        Use this week's cover story to answer questions

  
  

• Feed the Birds

  Description:

        Practice reading a recipe with this recipe from the Bronx Zoo

  
  

• Book It!

  Description:

        Students choose a book they are reading and identify story elements

  
  

• What's on the Shelf?

  Description:

        Organize a shelf of books based on the titles and then answer questions

  
  

• Creating a Storyboard

  Description:

        Help students turn passages from their favorite books into movie scenes

  
  

• The U.S. Government

  Description:

        Learn about the three branches of government and answer questions

  
  

• Bright Ideas!

  Description:

        Read a timeline showing when some of the most important inventions of our time were created

  
  

• Life in the Wild

  Description:

        Use a picture of a tiger to learn about how its body and behaviors have adapted to survive

  
  

• Pictures Tell Stories

  Description:

        Find a photo from an event in 2002 and answer questions

  
  

• Teaching the cover story on Martin Luther King Jr.

  Description:

        Teaching the cover story on Martin Luther King Jr.

  
  

• Martin and Me

  Description:

        Compare and contrast yourself with a young Dr. King

  
  

• The Life of a Leader

  Description:

        Read a timeline of Dr. King's life and accomplishments

  
  

• Packing Up

  Description:

        Read a list of supplies brought by Lewis and Clark on their expedition and answer questions

  
  

• A Trip Out West

  Description:

        Use articles from this week's issue to answer questions

  
  

• It's a Puzzle

  Description:

        Use pieces from a tangram, a Chinese puzzle, to make shapes

  
  

• Using Editing Symbols

  Description:

        Learn how symbols show writers what changes editors want them to make

  
  

• A Frozen Land

  Description:

        Read a map to learn more about Antarctica

  
  

• News from the South Pole

  Description:

        Use information from this week's cover story to complete sentences

  
  

• Polar Opposites

  Description:

        Use a chart to learn about the South Pole and the North Pole

  
  

• A Symbol of NASA

  Description:

        Examine the logo of NASA and follow the directions to color it in

  
  

• "The Best Inventions of 2002" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Inventions

  
  

• It's in the News

  Description:

        Use articles from this week's issue to answer questions

  
  

• "The Year in Pictures" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Pictures of the Year

  
  

• TFK's Person of the Year

  Description:

        Use this word search to find out more about the nominees for TFK's Person of the Year

  
  

• "Gr-r-r-eat News for Tigers" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Tigers

  
  

• News Clues

  Description:

        Use articles from this week's issue to answer questions

  
  

• Our Neighbor to the North

  Description:

        Students create a brochure about Canada

  
  

• "Is Antarctica Having a Meltdown?" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Antarctica

  
  

• "Lewis and Clark" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Lewis and Clark

  
  

• "Saying Goodbye" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Troops Shipping Out

  
  

• Test Prep with TFK

  Description:

        As you prepare students for upcoming standardized tests, review these strategies, tips, and reproducible pages for students

  
  

• "Why Did It Happen?" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Space Exploration

  
  

• It's in the Details

  Description:

        Use this week's cover story to answer questions

  
  

• "Toy Fair" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's issue: Toy Fair

  
  

• Word Hunt

  Description:

        Find key words from the magazine in this word search

  
  

• It's All About You!

  Description:

        Encourage reflective writing

  
  

• October Magic

  Description:

        Use this page to build students' background knowledge of the cover story.

  
  

• We Can Eat Smarter!

  Description:

        Use this page to preview this week's cover story

  
  

• Sweet Treats

  Description:

        Reading a chart on the sugar added to different foods and drinks

  
  

• Wildfire!

  Description:

        Use this reproducible to preview this week's cover story and build background.

  
  

• Saving Their Native Language

  Description:

        Use this page to build background about this week's cover story

  
  

• News Clues

  Description:

        Use this reproducbile to test students' comprehension of this week's issue

  
  

• Amazing Inventions

  Description:

        Use this page to build an invention time line

  
  

• Invention Match-Up

  Description:

        Use this reproducible to solve the riddle and match it to the invention

  
  

• The Flight That Changed the World

  Description:

        Use this page to help students learn about the Wright brother's first engine-powered plane

  
  

• Plane Facts

  Description:

        Students can learn basic plane parts while playing this game

  
  

• Picture This!

  Description:

        Use this page to have students analyze a photograph of their own choosing

  
  

• News Clues Word Search

  Description:

        Look back on some of the important events and people of 2003 with this word search

  
  

• Happy Landing

  Description:

        Use this page to help students understand the cover story

  
  

• Meet Mars

  Description:

        Read the chart comparing Mars and Earth

  
  

• An Award-Winning Book

  Description:

        Use this page to help students write a letter

  
  

• "Go Places with TFK: Alaska" Guide

  Description:

        Use this guide to integrate Go Places with TFK: Alaska into your curriculum

  
  

• The State Seal of Alaska

  Description:

        Analyze Alaska's state seal

  
  

• Coming to America

  Description:

        Use this page to have students trace the paths of immigrants to America.

  
  

• People on the Move

  Description:

        Read a graph that shows which states have the most immigrants.

  
  

• All Around the Sun

  Description:

        This page asks students to study a diagram on the planets and answer questions.

  
  

• Running Strong

  Description:

        Use this page to have students preview the cover story.

  
  

• Do You Want to Be President?

  Description:

        Read a chart about the President's job and answer questions.

  
  

• "Are You Eating Right?" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Nutrition

  
  

• "The Race is On" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: The Iditerod

  
  

• "The Struggle Over Iraq" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Iraq

  
  

• "Life for the Troops" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: U.S. Soldiers

  
  

• "Kids Who Care" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's issue: Volunteering

  
  

• Kids Taking Action

  Description:

        Use this week's cover story to answer questions

  
  

• "Mission to Mars" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Mars

  
  

• A Trip to Mars

  Description:

        Use this week's cover story to answer questions

  
  

• TFK Kid Reporter Competition

  Description:

        Information on how to become a TFK Kid Reporter

  
  

• "Mt. Everest" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Mt. Everest

  
  

• "You Must Be the New Kid" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week’s cover story on kids changing schools and how some schools are helping new kids fit in

  
  

• Show What You Know!

  Description:

        Test student's comprehension of this week's issue

  
  

• "All Eyes on Mars" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week’s cover story on Mars

  
  

• "Isabel Slams the Coast" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week’s cover story on the effects of Hurricane Isabel which hit North Carolina and surrounding states last week.

  
  

• "Daddy Day Care" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week’s cover story on baboon dads

  
  

• "Small Wonders" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on amazing kids

  
  

• In The News

  Description:

        Test student's comprehension of this week's issue

  
  

• "It's World Series Time!" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        The Marlins and the Yankees face off in the 100th year of the championship.

  
  

• In the News

  Description:

        Test students' comprehension of the stories in this week's issue of TIME For Kids.

  
  

• "America's Weight Problem" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on nutrition

  
  

• "Wildfire!" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on wildfires

  
  

• In The News

  Description:

        Use this reproducible to test students' comprehension of this week's issue

  
  

• "Saving Their Native Language" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on an Oklahoma school that teaches kids to speak Cherokee

  
  

• "100 Years of Flight" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the Wright brothers' historic flight and other important flight inventions and events

  
  

• In the News

  Description:

        Comprehension quiz on this week's issue

  
  

• "The Coolest Inventions of 2003" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on Inventions

  
  

• "2003: The Year in Pictures" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on Pictures of the Year

  
  

• "Back On Mars" Teachers' Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the current mission to Mars

  
  

• "Coming to America" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on Immigration.

  
  

• "'04" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination.

  
  

• "Book Awards" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the 2003's best books for kids

  
  

• Show What You Know!

  Description:

        Test student's comprehension of this week's issue

  
  

• "This Is a Museum?" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the new children's museums that are opening up across the nation.

  
  

• Show What You Know!

  Description:

        A quiz over the whole issue.

  
  

• "Dogs On Display" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on kid dog handlers at the Westminster Dog Show.

  
  

• "It's Test Time!" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on standardized testing and its impact on schools across America.

  
  

• "Go Places with TFK: Russia" Guide

  Description:

        Use this guide to integrate Go Places with TFK: Russia into your curriculum

  
  

• "Leader of the Pack" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on Senator John Kerry's emergence as the Democratic candidate for President.

  
  

• News Clues

  Description:

        Test your students' comprehension of stories in this week's issue.

  
  

• "Boys Only? Girls Only?" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the new rules that could make it easier to create boys-only or girls-only public schools and classes.

  
  

• News Hunt

  Description:

        Test your students' comprehension of stories in this week's issue.

  
  

• "Iraq's Future" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the Iraqi's struggle to build a new nation.

  
  

• It's In the News

  Description:

        Test your students' comprehension of stories in this week's issue.

  
  

• "Go Places with TFK: England" Guide

  Description:

        Use this guide to integrate Go Places with TFK: England into your curriculum.

  
  

• "Spell it Out!" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the National Spelling Bee.

  
  

• Get to Know TFK!

  Description:

        Explore the weekly features of TFK with this reproducible

  
  

• Class Vote

  Description:

        Analyze the results of a classroom election

  
  

• Big-Cat Facts

  Description:

        Build background knowledge of big cats with this chart reading reproducible on page 3

  
  

• Weather Watch

  Description:

        Reinforce map-reading skills with this reproducible weather map of the United States

  
  

• Hurricane Facts

  Description:

        Test student's comprehension of this week's cover story

  
  

• Objects Tell Stories

  Description:

        Use the reflective-writing reproducible to have students think about objects that are important to them and their families.

  
  

• The Path to the White House

  Description:

        A reproducible game that shows the steps some candidates take on their journey to the White House

  
  

• If I Were President

  Description:

        Challenge students to take a walk in the President's shoes with this reflective-writing reproducible

  
  

• Volcanoes!

  Description:

        A reproducible on the number of active volcanoes found in the United States. See page 3.

  
  

• Family Reading with TFK!

  Description:

        A reproducible to encourage family reading.

  
  

• A Sea Turtle's Life

  Description:

        Give students practice sequencing events with this reproducible that shows the life cycle of sea turtles

  
  

• Fact or Opinion

  Description:

        Give students practice identifying fact and opinion.

  
  

• A Special Symbol

  Description:

        Give students practice following directions with this reproducible that teaches about the Presidential Seal.

  
  

• Tell It to the President!

  Description:

        Give students practice writing a friendly letter.

  
  

• A Time to Share

  Description:

        Give students practice solving word problems with this reproducible.

  
  

• Help is on the Way

  Description:

        Give students practice identifying some of the problems and solutions in their schools and community.

  
  

• "The Coolest Inventions of 2004" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the coolest inventions of 2004.

  
  

• What a Great Idea!

  Description:

        Have students reflect on how some inventions have impacted their lives.

  
  

• Inventions, Then and Now

  Description:

        Challenge students to find out how inventions have changed over time.

  
  

• "A Thirsty World" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the world's water crisis.

  
  

• "Remembering Lewis and Clark" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on events honoring the Lewis and Clark expedition.

  
  

• "The Games in Greece" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the return of the Olympic Games to their birthplace in Athens.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: Schools Get Growing

  
  

• "Political Conventions" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week’s cover story on the Democratic and Republican conventions

  
  

• "A Place of Honor" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the National Museum of the American Indian

  
  

• News Clues

  Description:

        Challenge students to show what they learned from reading this week's issue.

  
  

• "Election 2004" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the 2004 Presidential election

  
  

• "Saving Lions" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on lions

  
  

• A Look Back

  Description:

        Test students' comprehension of this week's cover story

  
  

• News Scoop Publishing Schedule

  Description:

        2004-2005 News Scoop Publishing Schedule

  
  

• "Ivan Hits" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on hurricanes

  
  

• "All Steamed Up" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on Mount Saint Helens

  
  

• In the News

  Description:

        Challenge students to show what they learned from reading this week's issue.

  
  

• "Four More Years" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the 2004 Presidential election results.

  
  

• "Animals at Work" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on animal helpers.

  
  

• News Clues

  Description:

        Challenge students to show what they learned from reading this week's issue.

  
  

• "A Big Turtle Comeback" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on saving the sea turtles.

  
  

• "Helping America's Poorest Kids" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the growing number of U.S. kids who

  
  

• "2004: The Year in Pictures" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story highlighting some of the most important events and people of 2004.

  
  

• "Tsunami Relief Efforts" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on tsunami relief efforts

  
  

• It's In the News

  Description:

        Test students' comprehension of this week's issue

  
  

• "Iraq's Choice" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the elections in Iraq.

  
  

• TFK Scavenger Hunt

  Description:

        Challenge your students to follow the directions and complete a scavenger hunt through this week's issue.

  
  

• You Be the Expert

  Description:

        Test students' comprehension of this week's issue

  
  

• In The News

  Description:

        Test students' comprehension of this week's issue

  
  

• "A Warmer World" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on global warming.

  
  

• It's in the News

  Description:

        Test your students' knowledge of this week's issue.

  
  

• "Creepy, Crawly Robots" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on scientists who are studying bugs and other critters to help them build new robots.

  
  

• "School Lunch Gets Fresh" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on Texas schools new food policy.

  
  

• "Northern Exposure" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the trek across the Arctic Ocean that former teachers Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen will soon take.

  
  

• "Zooming in on Mars" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the latest photos from Mars and what they tell us about the Red Planet.

  
  

• TFK Scavenger Hunt

  Description:

        Challenge your students to complete our scavenger hunt across this week's issue.

  
  

• "Shaky Ground" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the recent earthquake in Indonesia.

  
  

• The Earth's Plates

  Description:

        A reproducible on the earth's plates.

  
  

• An Interview With An Author

  Description:

        Have students reflect on how to plan an interview with this reproducible.

  
  

• Meet the Iberian Lynx

  Description:

        A reproducible on the features of the Iberian lynx

  
  

• TFK Earth Day Challenge

  Description:

        A problem-solving reproducible on ways to conserve resources

  
  

• Exploring Space

  Description:

        Give students practice sequencing with this reproducible of events in U.S. space exploration.

  
  

• Space Talk

  Description:

        Challenge your students to complete this word search puzzle of space exploration terms.

  
  

• U.S. Deserts

  Description:

        Give students practice reading a map and key that shows the location of deserts in the U.S.

  
  

• Tell It to TFK

  Description:

        Encourage your students to voice their opinion about TFK magazine to the editors and writers with this letter-writing reproducible.

  
  

• Get to Know TFK!

  Description:

        Explore the weekly features of TFK with this reproducible.

  
  

• Hurricanes That Have Hit the U.S.

  Description:

        A map of the U.S. showing where Hurricane Katrina hit.

  
  

• My Hurricane Fact Book

  Description:

        Students can create a booklet on hurricanes using facts and details from their reading.

  
  

• Our National Government

  Description:

        A chart-reading activity on our three branches of government.

  
  

• You Be the Judge

  Description:

        Students apply problem-solving skills to settling classroom disputes.

  
  

• Kids to the Rescue

  Description:

        Give students practice building and reading a bar graph.

  
  

• Is That a Fact or an Opinion?

  Description:

        Use this reproducible to help your students identify a fact and an opinion.

  
  

• Meet a Frog

  Description:

        A reproducible diagram of a frog.

  
  

• Disappearing Frogs

  Description:

        A reproducible on identifying cause and effect.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: Ready to Lead

  Description:

        Students read a street map of the Inauguration parade route in Washington, D.C.

  
  

• A Trip to the Market

  Description:

        Give your students practice making healthy choices with this chart-reading reproducible.

  
  

• A Recipe for a Healthy Body

  Description:

        Challenge your students to complete this recipe-reading activity.

  
  

• Earth on the Move

  Description:

        Use this graphic organizer to explore earthquakes.

  
  

• "A Sad Harvest" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on child labor in the United States.

  
  

• Child Labor in the United States

  Description:

        Support your students' understanding of child labor in the U.S.

  
  

• "Losing the Lynx" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the endangered Iberian lynx.

  
  

• "Back to Space" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on U.S. space exploration.

  
  

• "Desert in Danger" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the population growth in U.S. deserts and its impact on native plants and animals.

  
  

• "The U.S. Supreme Court" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on filling the vacancies left in the U.S. Supreme Court.

  
  

• "Young Heroes" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on kids helping Hurricane Katrina survivors.

  
  

• "The High Price of Gas" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on rising fuel prices.

  
  

• Family Reading with TFK

  Description:

        Support family reading and discussion with this reproducible.

  
  

• TFK Online Scavenger Hunt

  Description:

        Encourage your students to explore TFK's website with this reproducible.

  
  

• "Hurricane Katrina" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the impact of Hurricane Katrina's fury in the Gulf Coast.

  
  

• "The Coolest Inventions of 2005" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the Coolest Inventions of 2005.

  
  

• "A Future for Frogs" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on a global amphibian crisis.

  
  

• "Earthquakes" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the huge earthquake that hit Pakistan and its neighbors.

  
  

• "Make Lunch Fresh" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the National Farm to School Program.

  
  

• "Gym Class Gets Smart" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on gym classes with an aim toward developing healthy fitness habits for life.

  
  

• Garden Math

  Description:

        Students solve garden-related word problems.

  
  

• "Saving the Great Apes" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on a new plan to protect apes.

  
  

• Match the Great Apes

  Description:

        Challenge your students to match the pictures of the great apes with their descriptions.

  
  

• Fresh from the White House Garden

  Description:

        Give students practice using a key with this map of the White House garden.

  
  

• "Riders for Health News" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on Riders for Health, an organization that delivers medicine and other supplies to hard to reach areas in Africa

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: Man on the Moon

  
  

• TFK Scavenger Hunt

  Description:

        Have students identify various nonfiction text features in this week’s issue of TFK.

  
  

• "Alternative Energy Sources" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on renewable energy sources found in nature

  
  

• "King's Journey" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

  
  

• "Mission to Pluto" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the New Horizons mission to Pluto.

  
  

• "2005: The Year in Pictures" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the pictures of the year.

  
  

• News Clues Word Search

  Description:

        Challenge your students to complete the crossword puzzle based on the people, places and events highlighted in this week's issue of TFK.

  
  

• "The Winter Olympic Games" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        An Olympic preview

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: A Thirsty World

  
  

• "A True Look At George Washington" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the models that artists are building of George Washington.

  
  

• "New Stomping Grounds" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the Pittsburgh Zoo's plan to expand elephant zoo habitats.

  
  

• "A Close Look at a News Story"

  Description:

        An activity sheet highlighting the features of a news story

  
  

• "Write to the Point"

  Description:

        Copy this page for a guided reading activity that you can share with your students.

  
  

• "Life in South Africa"

  Description:

        Students can learn about life in South Africa for a young girl.

  
  

• Exploring the Moon

  Description:

        Students read a time line to learn about the history of moon exploration.

  
  

• Farming in Africa

  Description:

        Give your students practice identifying cause and effect with this worksheet on farming in Africa.

  
  

• Is That a Fact?

  Description:

        Students will identify facts and opinions with this worksheet.

  
  

• Inside the Human Body

  Description:

        Teach students about the different parts of the human body with this reproducible diagram.

  
  

• Family Reading With TIME For Kids

  Description:

        Have students share this week's cover story with a family member.

  
  

• Can You Find It?

  Description:

        Have students find a variety of items in this week’s magazine.

  
  

• Look How We’ve Grown!

  Description:

        Have students interpret a graph showing the U.S. population from 1960 to 2000.

  
  

• A Present for the Future

  Description:

        Encourage students to reflect on life in the United States during 2006.

  
  

• Vegetable Riddles

  Description:

        Students can solve a page of riddles and learn why vegetables are good to eat.

  
  

• Eat Your Vegetables!

  Description:

        Students can read a recipe for vegetable dip.

  
  

• A Beautiful World Under the Ocean

  Description:

        Students can learn about life in coral reefs

  
  

• Read All About It!

  Description:

        Students can reflect on what they have learned about coral reefs with this worksheet.

  
  

• The U.S. Government

  Description:

        Teach students about the three branches of the U.S. government.

  
  

• Every Vote Counts

  Description:

        Give students practice constructing a graph.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• I Wish I Had Thought of That!

  Description:

        Have students categorize everyday inventions and reflect on their use

  
  

• Clever Inventions

  Description:

        Students use a cluster map to learn more about inventions and inventors

  
  

• "Olympic Dreams" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the results of the 2006 Winter Olympics.

  
  

• "Rebuilding New Orleans" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on rebuilding efforts in New Orleans

  
  

• "Who Were the First Americans?" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on early man in America.

  
  

• "A Magic School in South Africa" Teacher’s Guide

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: A Super-Sized Problem

  
  

• "Thank You for Not Smoking" Teacher's Guide March

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on smoking.

  
  

• Straight Talk

  Description:

        Have students show what they have learned about the dangers of smoking with this problem solving reproducible.

  
  

• Water Smart

  Description:

        Students complete a graphic organizer based on the story "Water Worries."

  
  

• "A Battle Over the Border" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the debate over illegal immigration in the U.S.

  
  

• "An Eco-Friendly School" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Celebrate Earth Day with this week's profile of a certified green school in Ada, Michigan.

  
  

• It's In the Soil

  Description:

        Students answer questions based on directions for making their own humus, the main ingredient in great topsoil.

  
  

• "Made in China" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach the cover story on China's economic relationship with the United States.

  
  

• Show What You Know

  Description:

        Assess students' understanding of the week's issue of TFK with this multiple-choice quiz.

  
  

• "I'm the Boss" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach the cover story on kid entrepreneurs

  
  

• "Getting to Know TFK Teacher's Guide"

  Description:

        Explore the features of TFK magazine with this activity sheet

  
  

• "A Visit to the Zoo" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Have students practice their map reading skills with this reproducible zoo map.

  
  

• How Much Water Do You Use?

  Description:

        Have students calculate how much water they use in a day.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• Where are the Wildfires?

  Description:

        Have students study a map that shows the location of 12 California wildfires.

  
  

• Get Organized

  Description:

        Students fill out a graphic organizer to show what they learned about wildfires.

  
  

• American Indian Heritage Month

  Description:

        Have students read about four notable American Indians.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: California's Raging Fires

  
  

• School Days

  Description:

        Students practice answering math problems that deal with time.

  
  

• What Do You Think?

  Description:

        Have students use this planning chart to help them write a paragraph about their thoughts on extending the school day.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: Time to Learn

  
  

• Famous Faces

  Description:

        Students match descriptions of some of India’s most influential leaders with quotes and pictures of those leaders.

  
  

• My Notes on J.F.K.

  Description:

        Have students record important information as they read this week’s cover story on John F. Kennedy.

  
  

• J.F.K. and Me

  Description:

        Students compare their own hobbies, interests and accomplishments with those of John F. Kennedy as they fill out this chart.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: John Fitzgerald Kennedy

  
  

• Phases of the Moon

  Description:

        Use this diagram-reading activity to teach students about the eight phases of the moon.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: The Coolest Inventions of 2007

  
  

• 50 Years

  Description:

        Have students read a time line about some of the most famous toys invented in the last 50 years.

  
  

• Get Creative

  Description:

        Students fill out a graphic organizer to plan a magazine advertisement for an invention featured in TFK.

  
  

• Take a Look

  Description:

        Have students fill out this graphic organizer to analyze a photograph from TFK.

  
  

• TFK Challenge

  Description:

        Have students complete this worksheet to show what they learned in this week’s issue of TFK.

  
  

• Online Scavenger Hunt

  Description:

        Have students complete this worksheet to show what they learned in this week’s issue of TFK.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: 2007 The Year in Pictures

  
  

• Sort the Books!

  Description:

        Students distinguish between fiction and nonfiction books, and answer genre-related questions

  
  

• A Class Vote

  Description:

        Give students practice building and analyzing a bar graph.

  
  

• Super-Salty Water

  Description:

        Have students study a diagram to learn about the Dead Sea habitat.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: Person of the Year J.K. Rowling

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: Who Will Win?

  
  

• Students read a map and complete activities to learn more about the United States.

  Description:

        Students read a map and complete activities to learn more about the United States.

  
  

• Questions for Candidates

  Description:

        Have students reflect on the issues most important to them.

  
  

• Do You Want to Run for President?

  Description:

        Students design their own campaign button and imagine what life would be like if they were running for President.

  
  

• Penguin Time!

  Description:

        Have students read to find out about three kinds of penguins.

  
  

• Continents of the World

  Description:

        Have students complete map-related activities to learn about the world’s continents.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: Picturing Antarctica

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• Asthma Facts

  Description:

        Have students make a booklet about asthma with this worksheet.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• Looking at Photos

  Description:

        Students can analyze a photograph with this worksheet

  
  

• Looking Back at 2006

  Description:

        Challenge students to think back on news events in 2006.

  
  

• This Is a Polar Bear

  Description:

        Teach students about the different features of a polar bear with this reproducible diagram.

  
  

• In the News

  Description:

        Use this reproducible to test students’ comprehension of this week's issue.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• News Scoop Teacher's Guide

  
  

• Around the World Turkey

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• Fascinating Frogs

  Description:

        Have students read the chart and answer questions to learn about three different kinds of frogs.

  
  

• A Frog’s Life

  Description:

        Students practice sequencing events with this reproducible that shows the life cycle of a bullfrog.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• The Race Is On!

  Description:

        Students use transition words to sequence early steps of the Presidential election process.

  
  

• Do You Want to Be President?

  Description:

        Have students reflect on and write about what they would do to help the country.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• What Do You Know?

  Description:

        Have students use this graphic organizer to identify important facts and details in this week’s cover story.

  
  

• A Busy Schedule

  Description:

        Students read a schedule to learn about the job of the Secretary of State.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• Animal Ancestors

  Description:

        Have students use a graph to compare extinct animals with their existing relatives.

  
  

• I Feel Invisible

  Description:

        Analyze the first line of Ralph Ellison's most famous novel Invisible Man

  
  

• Fight for Rights History Challenge

  Description:

        Take this quiz on significant events in the civil rights movement

  
  

• Answer Key: Fight for Rights Challenge

  Description:

        Answer Key: Fight for Rights Challenge

  
  

• Now Hear This

  
  

• Sightseeing Guide: Brazil

  Description:

        Use a map and information from www.timeforkids.com/gpbrazil to learn about Brazil

  
  

• Brazil Sightseeing Guide Answer Key

  Description:

        Brazil Sightseeing Guide Answer Key

  
  

• Homeland Hero: Brazil

  Description:

        Read about a Brazilian hero and use the guide to help write an essay

  
  

• Ask Lizie

  Description:

        Compare and contrast life in the U.S. and life in Brazil

  
  

• Sightseeing Guide: Mexico

  Description:

        Use a map and information to learn about Mexico

  
  

• Mexico Sightseeing Guide Answer Key

  Description:

        Mexico Sightseeing Guide Answer Key

  
  

• Mexico Challenge

  Description:

        Take a quiz about Mexico

  
  

• Mexico Challenge Answer Key

  Description:

        Mexico quiz answer key

  
  

• Write Back

  Description:

        Use the KWL chart to write questions about life in Mexico

  
  

• Kenya Sightseeing Guide Answer Key

  Description:

        Kenya Sightseeing Guide Answer Key

  
  

• Snapshots of Life

  Description:

        Use the KWL chart to write questions about life in Kenya

  
  

• Sightseeing Guide: Vietnam

  Description:

        Use a map and information to learn about Vietnam

  
  

• Sightseeing Guide Answer Key Vietnam

  Description:

        Sightseeing Answer Key

  
  

• Vietnam Challenge

  Description:

        Take a quiz about Vietnam

  
  

• Vietnam Challenge: Answer Key

  Description:

        Vietnam quiz answer key

  
  

• Go Back in Time: Vietnam

  Description:

        Use theVietnam Timeline to answer questions about cause and effect

  
  

• Write Now

  Description:

        Read about a Vietnamese hero and use the guide to help write an essay

  
  

• Sightseeing Guide: India

  Description:

        Use a map and information to learn about India

  
  

• Sightseeing Answer Key India

  Description:

        Sightseeing Answer Key

  
  

• Ask Asan

  Description:

        Compare and contrast your life with that of an Indian boy

  
  

• Homeland Crisis: India

  Description:

        Use the guide to help you write an essay about India's illegal child labor crisis

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: Lady Bugs Lost

  
  

• Modern Marsupials

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• Across the Arctic Ocean

  Description:

        Give your students practice drawing conclusions with this reproducible list of supplies that Bancroft and Arneson will take on their Arctic trek.

  
  

• This is the Arctic

  Description:

        Use this map to teach students about the Arctic region.

  
  

• What a Trip!

  Description:

        Students write about an item they would take on a long trip to remind them of home.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• Teacher's Guide Grades 2-3: Costa Rica

  Description:

        Around the World Costa Rica

  
  

• A Honeybee’s Job

  Description:

        Use this diagram to teach students about pollination.

  
  

• Mystery of the Missing Bees

  Description:

        Have students identify and analyze possible causes of colony collapse disorder.

  
  

• The Great Honeybee Mystery Teacher's Guide

  
  

• Thinking it Through

  Description:

        Have students fill out a graphic organizer to identify problems faced by the residents of Kibera and solutions people have come up with to help.

  
  

• You Can Make Difference

  Description:

        Students reflect on an issue that affects their community and brainstorm ways to help.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• Baseball Language

  Description:

        Students use context clues to figure out the meanings of five baseball-related expressions.

  
  

• Top 5 Team Sports

  Description:

        Have students survey classmates then graph the results.

  
  

• Play Ball! Teacher's Guide

  
  

• A Brighter Future

  Description:

        Students compare an energy-saving compact fluorescent lightbulb with a regular incandescent lightbulb.

  
  

• Energy in the House

  Description:

        Have students read a pie graph to learn how energy is used in the average American home.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: Earth Day 2007

  
  

• Staying Healthy

  Description:

        Have students read about simple things they can do to take care of themselves.

  
  

• A Doctor’s Office on Wheels

  Description:

        Students reflect on the Children’s Health Fund medical van program by designing a symbol for it and answering questions.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: Doctors Who Deliver

  
  

• Journey to the New World

  Description:

        Have students read a map to learn about the voyage from England to Jamestown.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: Sailing Into History

  
  

• Getting to Know TIME For Kids

  Description:

        Nonfiction Reading and WritingUse this worksheet to familiarize students with the magazine’s format and features.

  
  

• What’s in a News Story?

  Description:

        Teach students the structure and features of a news story.

  
  

• Top Toy-Makers

  Description:

        Have students study and answer questions about a pie chart of the world’s top toy-producing counties.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• A Do-Good Duo

  Description:

        Have students read and answer questions about an interview with the founders of a charity.

  
  

• A Reading Reflection

  Description:

        Support comprehension of a news story with this graphic organizer.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: A Time to Serve

  
  

• Working for Justice

  Description:

        Have students read and answer questions about the life and accomplishments of Thurgood Marshall.

  
  

• What Do You See?

  Description:

        Have students analyze and reflect on a photograph of the cafeteria at Little Rock’s Central High School.