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• Follow The Torch

  Description:

        Build map-reading skills with this reproducible highlighting the route of the 2006 Olympic Torch Relay.

  
  

• Let the Games Begin

  Description:

        A reproducible showing an Olympic competition schedule.

  
  

• Dear Mr. President

  Description:

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

  
  

• An Olympic Challenge

  Description:

        Challenge students to solve the word problems and learn fun facts with this reproducible.

  
  

• Interview a Woman in Your Life

  Description:

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

  
  

• A Trip to New Orleans

  Description:

        A map-reading reproducible highlighting the French Quarter

  
  

• Problem and Solution

  Description:

        Test student's understanding of this week's issue

  
  

• Headline Hunt

  Description:

        Build your students' writing skills with this page

  
  

• Fact Find

  Description:

        Give your students practice reading for details with this reproducible.

  
  

• Smoke Alarm

  Description:

        A reproducible chart that highlights some of the dangerous chemicals found in cigarettes.

  
  

• The Immigration Debate

  Description:

        Use this graphic organizer to help guide your students' reading on the immigration debate in the U.S.

  
  

• Test Your U.S. History I.Q.

  Description:

        Challenge your students to show what they know about U.S. history and government.

  
  

• Too Much Trash!

  Description:

        Read the pie chart to find out what Americans are throwing away in the trash.

  
  

• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

  Description:

        Encourage students to recycle with this chart-reading reproducible.

  
  

• Trading Partners

  Description:

        Give students practice comparing and contrasting with this reproducible t-chart of China and the United States.

  
  

• 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 10-year-old boy in China.

  
  

• Iraq and Its Neighbors

  Description:

        Give your students practice reading a map with this reproducible map of the Middle East.

  
  

• Reading for Information

  Description:

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

  
  

• "The World Health Crisis" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's story on the world health crisis

  
  

• Get to the Point

  Description:

        A graphic organizer on taking notes

  
  

• Helping Hands

  Description:

        A problem-solution reproducible on the global health crisis

  
  

• Science News

  Description:

        A reproducible highlighting the features of a news story.

  
  

• Let's Get Moving!

  Description:

        Challenge students and their family members to track their activities for a week and think about their future fitness goals with this reproducible.

  
  

• Eating for Good Health

  Description:

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

  
  

• Power Up with Nature

  Description:

        A chart highlighting renewable energy sources

  
  

• Where Does the U.S. Get Its Energy?

  Description:

        A pie-chart activity on U.S. sources of energy in 2004

  
  

• What a Great Idea

  Description:

        Give your students practice building a time line with this reproducible of inventions.

  
  

• Inventions, Then and Now

  Description:

        Encourage students to interview family members to find out how some common inventions have changed over the years.

  
  

• Inventor Organizer

  Description:

        Challenge your students to research an inventor and write a biographical essay about him or her. This reproducible organizer will help them get started.

  
  

• Headline News

  Description:

        Have your students classify the news stories highlighted in this week's issue of TFK using this reproducible.

  
  

• Making a Cartoon Connection

  Description:

        Give your students practice analyzing a cartoon with this reproducible.

  
  

• A Peaceful Leader

  Description:

        Give your students practice reading a timeline with this reproducible time line of important events in the life of Martin Luther King Jr.

  
  

• Pluto and Earth

  Description:

        Compare Pluto and Earth with this reproducible.

  
  

• Pluto Space Programs

  Description:

        Give your students practice reading a schedule with this reproducible.

  
  

• Maya Culture

  Description:

        Build background knowledge on the Maya before reading the story on page 7 with your students.

  
  

• Take the Lead!

  Description:

        Give your students practice analyzing and writing a lead with this reproducible.

  
  

• A Year to Remember

  Description:

        Challenge students to build a time line of important events that happened throughout the year.

  
  

• The Year in News

  Description:

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

  
  

• A Look at Afghanistan

  Description:

        Use this map activity to teach students about Afghanistan’s location in the world.

  
  

• Nature's Fury

  Description:

        A chart-reading reproducible on natural disasters.

  
  

• Helping South Asia

  Description:

        A critical-thinking reproducible on the problems faced in South Asia after the tsunami

  
  

• Jaguars In the Wild

  Description:

        A web-reading reproducible on jaguars

  
  

• TFK Scavenger Hunt

  Description:

        A reproducible on finding nonfiction text features

  
  

• Saturn's Many Moons

  Description:

        A diagram showing nine of Saturn's moons

  
  

• Show What You Know

  Description:

        Use this activity to assess students’ comprehension of this week’s issue.

  
  

• Iraq and the United States

  Description:

        Give your students practice reading a time line with this reproducible time line of key events in U.S.-Iraqi relations.

  
  

• A Greenhouse Gas

  Description:

        Give your students practice reading a pie chart with this reproducible that shows the sources of man-made carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

  
  

• Cause and Effect

  Description:

        Challenge students to fill in the graphic organizer with three effects of global warming and show what they learned about other stories in this week's issue.

  
  

• Mind Your Money

  Description:

        Challenge your students to analyze a weekly budget and make suggestions about how to save money.

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Build-A-Robot Brainstorm

  Description:

        Have students use this graphic organizer to design and plan their own robot.

  
  

• A Look Inside the Body

  Description:

        A chart-reading activity on how our bodies move.

  
  

• A Mission to Mars

  Description:

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

  
  

• Tell It to Congress

  Description:

        Use this letter-writing activity to have your students express their views on child labor to Congress.

  
  

• Our Star, the Sun

  Description:

        Students read and answer questions about a diagram of the sun.

  
  

• What Do You Know?

  Description:

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

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: Somewhere Safe

  
  

• 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

  
  

• School Years Around the World

  Description:

        Answer questions based on a graph that shows the average number of years students in various countries spend in school

  
  

• Ghana and the U.S. (education differences)

  Description:

        Compare and contrast schools in Ghana and schools in the U.S.

  
  

• Who's in Charge? Executive Branch

  Description:

        Find out who belongs to the Executive branch, what it does, and why it does it

  
  

• Members of the President's Cabinet

  Description:

        Identify the role of each cabinet member and how they might be involved with responding to the Sept. 11 tragedy

  
  

• Members of the President's Cabinet:Answer Key

  Description:

        Use this list of Cabinet positions and responsibilities to teach students about the Executive branch

  
  

• Who's on the Job? (Cabinet positions)

  Description:

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

  
  

• Native Americans Census Map

  Description:

        Read a map to identify Native American populations and answer questions based on the map

  
  

• Where in the World is Italy?

  Description:

        Use a map of Italy and its surrounding areas to answer questions

  
  

• Earth Day Challenge

  Description:

        Use these questions to identify some ways we use natural resources everyday

  
  

• 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 Websites

  Description:

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

  
  

• Strong Verbs

  Description:

        Use strong verbs to improve and rewrite a paragraph about Mark McGwire

  
  

• Get Moving!

  Description:

        Use the Physical Activity Pyramind for Kids to determine how kids can stay active

  
  

• Detail Detectives

  Description:

        Practice identifying different parts of a magazine and a story. Plus, recall, reflect and summarize different part of TFK

  
  

• Proud to be an American

  Description:

        Read and respond to quotations about democracy, justice and character

  
  

• Words of a Nation

  Description:

        Read what famous Americans have said about freedom and then answer questions based on the quotations

  
  

• Know Your Rights

  Description:

        Use this graphic organizer to learn more about the Bill of Rights

  
  

• Seeking Safety

  Description:

        Read a map that shows the number of Afghani refugees who now live in different places and answer questions based on the map

  
  

• News Clues

  Description:

        Use the 9/27/02 issue to answer comprehension, map and critical thinking questions

  
  

• TIME for the Facts

  Description:

        Identify facts and opinions in a list of news-related statements

  
  

• Space Invaders

  Description:

        Use this week's cover story to complete a chart

  
  

• Science News

  Description:

        Identify steps in the scientific method in science news stories

  
  

• Read a Science Article

  Description:

        Use these reading strategies while reading a science article

  
  

• Vocabulary Word Map

  Description:

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

  
  

• Military Powers

  Description:

        Read passages from the Constitution and explore military powers

  
  

• TFK Scavenger Hunt

  Description:

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

  
  

• Who Has the Power?

  Description:

        Learn about the three branches of government and their powers

  
  

• Word Map

  Description:

        Practice dictionary skills with this vocabulary activity

  
  

• "Where's the Rain?" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach the 9/13/02 cover story: Drought

  
  

• "What Should We Do About Saddam Hussein" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach the 10/11/02 cover story: Iraq

  
  

• 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

  
  

• "What Should We Do About Saddam Hussein?" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach the 10/11/02 cover story: Iraq

  
  

• "Gym Shapes Up" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

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

  
  

• Know Your Rights

  Description:

        Use this graphic organizer to learn more about the Bill of Rights

  
  

• "Rebuilding Afghanistan"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 of the Week

  Description:

        Use this issue to answer questions

  
  

• "From Books to Movies" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Entertainment

  
  

• News Detectives

  Description:

        Use articles from this week's issue to answer questions

  
  

• "Election 2002" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Elections

  
  

• It's in the Details

  Description:

        Use articles from this week's issue to answer questions

  
  

• "Backstage at the Zoo" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach the 10/25/02 cover story: Zoo

  
  

• News Hunt

  Description:

        Use this week's cover story to answer questions

  
  

• Research Notes

  Description:

        Use this graphic organizer to help students organize research about their favorite animal

  
  

• "Hard Times in the U.S.A." Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Economy

  
  

• Look for the Details

  Description:

        Use articles from this week's issue to answer questions

  
  

• It's For the Birds!

  Description:

        Practice reading a recipe with this recipe from the Bronx Zoo

  
  

• KWL Chart

  Description:

        Use this chart during a research project to determine what students know, what they want to know, and what they learned

  
  

• Keyword Search

  Description:

        Use this guide to help students use keywords to conduct online research

  
  

• KWL Chart

  Description:

        Use this graphic organizer to determine what students know about their favorite animal and what they want to learn from their research

  
  

• Times of Change

  Description:

        Use the given photo and graph to answer questions about the Great Depression

  
  

• Creating a Storyboard

  Description:

        Help students turn passages from their favorite books into movie scenes

  
  

• Picture This!

  Description:

        Write a letter to a film director persuading him or her to turn your favorite book into a movie

  
  

• Checks and Balances

  Description:

        Read a chart about the three branches of government and then answer questions

  
  

• What a Great Idea!

  Description:

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

  
  

• American Indians in the U.S.

  Description:

        Study a map showing how many people of American-Indian heritage live in each state and then answer questions

  
  

• The United Nations

  Description:

        Read a chart to learn more about the U.N., its goals and how it works

  
  

• Neighboring Nations

  Description:

        Complete a chart to see just how much Canada and the U.S. have in common

  
  

• Military Powers

  Description:

        Read passages from the Constitution and explore military powers

  
  

• A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

  Description:

        Find a picture of an event from 2002 and answer questions

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: Man on the Moon

  
  

• Gearing Up

  Description:

        Learn about the supplies and equipment Lewis and Clark used

  
  

• A Leading Life

  Description:

        Use a timeline to answer questions about Dr. King's life

  
  

• A Global Problem

  Description:

        Read a graph and learn more about countries that use child labor

  
  

• Look for the Details

  Description:

        Use articles from this week's issue to answer questions

  
  

• A Look at China

  Description:

        Use your Go Places with TFK issue to answer questions about China

  
  

• Using Editing Symbols

  Description:

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

  
  

• Test Prep with TFK

  Description:

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

  
  

• A Frozen Land

  Description:

        Use a map to find out more about Antarctica

  
  

• Analyzing a News Story

  Description:

        Use this graphic organizer to analyze a news story

  
  

• Why Explore the Universe?

  Description:

        Read famous quotes about space exploration and answer questions

  
  

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

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Inventions

  
  

• News of the Week

  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

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teaching the cover story on: Lewis and Clark

  
  

• "Is Saddam Hiding Something?" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Iraq

  
  

• Look for the Details

  Description:

        Use articles in this week's issue to answer questions

  
  

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

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Antarctica

  
  

• News of the Week

  Description:

        Use this week's cover story to answer questions

  
  

• "Big Jobs, Little Workers" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Child Labor

  
  

• "Saying Goodbye" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Troops Shipping Out

  
  

• A Hot Spot for Pirates

  Description:

        Use this map-reading activity to teach students about the location of recent pirate attacks.

  
  

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

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Space Exploration

  
  

• It's in the News

  Description:

        Use this week's cover story to answer questions

  
  

• "Hooked on Oil" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Oil

  
  

• News of the Week

  Description:

        Answer questions based on this week's magazine

  
  

• All About Me!

  Description:

        Encourage reflective writing with this page

  
  

• World Series Winners

  Description:

        Use the reproducbile on page 3 to help students build graphing skills.

  
  

• You Can Make Smart Choices

  Description:

        Reading a chart and reflecting on healthy food and exercise choices

  
  

• Wildfires!

  Description:

        Use this reproducible to build map-reading skills.

  
  

• The Trail of the Treasure

  Description:

        Use this world map reproducbile to have students trace the path of a stolen art treasure.

  
  

• Look For the Details

  Description:

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

  
  

• Bright Ideas!

  Description:

        Use this reproducible to build and read an invention time line

  
  

• News Flash: Man Can Fly!

  Description:

        Use this writing activity to have students reflect on the Wright brother's achievements

  
  

• Looking at Photographs

  Description:

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

  
  

• Critters In Crisis!

  Description:

        Read the graph to find out how the number of endangered species has been increasing since 1980

  
  

• "Go Places with TFK: Alaska" Guide

  Description:

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

  
  

• An Alaska Scavenger Hunt

  Description:

        Use this page to test student's comprehension of Go Places with TFK: Alaska

  
  

• Coming to America

  Description:

        Read a timeline that shows the number of immigrants that came to the United States between 1900 and 2000.

  
  

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

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Nutrition

  
  

• "A Limit to Our Freedoms?" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Freedom of Speech

  
  

• TFK Scavenger Hunt

  Description:

        Answer questions about this week's issue

  
  

• "Mean TV" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Reality TV

  
  

• "At War in Iraq"

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Iraq

  
  

• "Kids Who Care" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's issue: Volunteering

  
  

• "Iraq: What's Next" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story: Iraq

  
  

• News Around the World

  Description:

        Use this week's cover story to answer questions

  
  

• "Instant Messaging" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on Instant Messaging

  
  

• It's In The Details

  Description:

        Use this week's issue to follow directions and answer questions

  
  

• "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

  
  

• It's In the News

  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

  
  

• What’s The Big Idea?

  Description:

        Test student’s comprehension of this week’s issue

  
  

• "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.

  
  

• "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.

  
  

• News Watch

  Description:

        Test student’s comprehension of this week’s issue.

  
  

• "The Race Is On!" Teacher’s Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week’s cover story on elections

  
  

• Test student’s comprehension of this week’s issue

  
  

• "Small Wonders" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on amazing kids

  
  

• News Watch

  Description:

        Test student's comprehension of this week's issue

  
  

• "World Series Fever!" 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.

  
  

• "We Can Eat Smarter" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on obesity

  
  

• Look For the Details

  Description:

        Test student's comprehension of this week's issue

  
  

• "Firestorms" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on wildfires

  
  

• What's New?

  Description:

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

  
  

• "Stealing Ancient Treasures" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story about ancient Asian treasures being stolen and sold around the world

  
  

• "100 Years of Flight" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

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

  
  

• It's 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

  
  

• Show What You Know!

  Description:

        Use the cover story to fill in the chart about the new inventions of 2003

  
  

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

  Description:

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

  
  

• News Clues Word Search

  Description:

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

  
  

• "Back on Mars" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

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

  
  

• Next Stop, Mars!

  Description:

        Use this page to have students practice their note-taking skills

  
  

• In The News

  Description:

        Test student's comprehension of this week's issue

  
  

• "America's Newcomers" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on Immigration.

  
  

• Show What You Know!

  Description:

        A quiz over the whole issue.

  
  

• "'04" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

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

  
  

• It's In the News

  Description:

        A quiz over the whole issue.

  
  

• "Living Among Wildlife" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on how wildlife habitat loss is affecting animals and people

  
  

• News Hunt

  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.

  
  

• It's In the News

  Description:

        A quiz over the whole 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.

  
  

• "Baseball's Big Deal" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the debate over baseball's high salaries.

  
  

• "It's Test Time!" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

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

  
  

• It's In the News

  Description:

        Test students' comprehension of this week's issue with this reproducible page.

  
  

• "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 Hunt

  Description:

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

  
  

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

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the new rules that could make it easier for public school districts to create single-gender schools.

  
  

• "Iraq's Future" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

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

  
  

• Show What You Know

  Description:

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

  
  

• "Spell it Out!" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

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

  
  

• Detail Search

  Description:

        Challenge your students to follow the directions and complete this detail search of magazine features.

  
  

• Get to Know TFK

  Description:

        Explore the weekly features of TFK with this reproducible

  
  

• And the Winner Is . . .

  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

  
  

• A Message of Understanding

  Description:

        Reflect on what it means to be a refugee

  
  

• What's in a Name?

  Description:

        Learn how hurricanes are named with this reproducible

  
  

• Objects Tell A Story

  Description:

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

  
  

• Campaign for the Presidency

  Description:

        Challenge students to outline a mock campaign for the Presidency with this reflective-writing reproducible

  
  

• Election Fever

  Description:

        Test students understanding of this week's issue

  
  

• Active Volcanoes in the U.S.

  Description:

        Have students map which states have active volcanoes.

  
  

• "The Tragedy of Sudan" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the crisis in Sudan.

  
  

• Refugees

  Description:

        Promote understanding and tolerance toward refugees.

  
  

• Reptile Files: Sea Turtle Facts

  Description:

        Use the chart-reading reproducible that teaches students about sea turtles.

  
  

• Is That a Fact?

  Description:

        Give students practice identifying fact and opinion and cause and effect.

  
  

• The Three Branches of Government

  Description:

        Use this chart-reading reproducible that teaches students about the three branches of government.

  
  

• News Clues

  Description:

        Challenge students to show what they have learned about this week's issue.

  
  

• What's the Problem?

  Description:

        Have students identify some of the problems and solutions faced by children and their families who live in poverty.

  
  

• Innovative Inventions

  Description:

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

  
  

• Ready, Set, Invent!

  Description:

        Encourage students to create their own invention using this graphic organizer.

  
  

• "A Thirsty World" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

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

  
  

• "A Land Divided" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the conflict in the Middle East.

  
  

• News Clues

  Description:

        Use this student page to test students' understanding of stories in this week's issue.

  
  

• "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.

  
  

• "The Presidential Election" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week’s cover story on the race for the Presidential election

  
  

• "A Place of Honor" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

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

  
  

• News Watch

  Description:

        Test students' comprehension of this week's issue.

  
  

• "Election 2004" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on hurricanes

  
  

• "Saving Lions" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on lions.

  
  

• News Watch

  Description:

        Test students' comprehension of this week's issue

  
  

• World Report Publishing Schedule

  Description:

        2004-2005 World Report Publishing Schedule

  
  

• "Ivan Hits" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on hurricanes

  
  

• News Watch

  Description:

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

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: Schools Get Growing

  
  

• "All Steamed Up" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on Mount Saint Helens.

  
  

• It's in the News

  Description:

        Test students' comprehension of this week's issue.

  
  

• "A Big Turtle Comeback" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

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

  
  

• "Four More Years" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

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

  
  

• News Watch

  Description:

        Test students' comprehension of this week's issue.

  
  

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

  Description:

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

  
  

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

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the growing number of U.S. kids who live in poverty and how Americans are pitching in to support them.

  
  

• It's In the News

  Description:

        Challenge students to show what they have learned about this week's issue.

  
  

• "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.

  
  

• Water Smart

  Description:

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

  
  

• "Tsunami Relief Efforts" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on tsunami relief efforts

  
  

• "Iraq's Choice" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

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

  
  

• It's in the News

  Description:

        Test students' comprehension of this week's issue.

  
  

• "Saving Jaguars" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

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

  
  

• "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.

  
  

• Is That a Fact?

  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.

  
  

• "Creepy, Crawly Robots" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on scientists who are studying crabs, cockroaches and other creatures to build the next generation of robots.

  
  

• Be a News Detective

  Description:

        Test students comprehension of this week's issue.

  
  

• "Playing with Pain" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the increase in kids' sports injuries.

  
  

• The News of the Week

  Description:

        Test students comprehension of this week's issue.

  
  

• "Social Security" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on Social Security.

  
  

• "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.

  
  

• Read and Reflect

  Description:

        Encourage students to reflect on the news stories featured in this week's issue of TFK with this reproducible.

  
  

• "A New Jolt" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

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

  
  

• Be a News Detective

  Description:

        Test students' comprehension of this week's issue.

  
  

• A Whole Lot of Shaking Going On

  Description:

        How often do earthquakes happen? Use this chart-reading reproducible to find out.

  
  

• Meet the Iberian Lynx

  Description:

        Create a brochure on the Iberian lynx.

  
  

• TFK Earth Day Challenge

  Description:

        A problem-solving reproducible on ways to conserve resources

  
  

• The U.S. Explores Space

  Description:

        Give students practice reading a time line that shows some events in U.S. space exploration.

  
  

• Word Play

  Description:

        Challenge students to complete this crossword puzzle highlighting 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.

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• A Hurricane's Life

  Description:

        Students can read the diagram to learn how hurricanes form.

  
  

• Hurricane Hits in the United States

  Description:

        Have students read the map to find out which states have been hit by hurricanes from 1900-2000.

  
  

• Branches of the U.S. Government

  Description:

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

  
  

• Helping Hands

  Description:

        Give students practice building and reading a bar graph.

  
  

• Meet the Amphibians

  Description:

        A chart-reading activity on amphibian facts.

  
  

• Amphibians in Trouble

  Description:

        A reproducible to test student's comprehension of this week's issue.

  
  

• Powerful Storms

  Description:

        Use this reproducible to give your students practice reading a double bar graph on Category 4 and 5 hurricanes.

  
  

• I Felt the Earth Move

  Description:

        Use this graphic organizer to explore earthquakes.

  
  

• Quake Vocabulary

  Description:

        Test your students' knowledge of the stories in this week's issue with our quiz.

  
  

• "A Sad Harvest" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

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

  
  

• News Watch

  Description:

        Assess students' understanding of the news stories featured in this week's issue of TFK.

  
  

• "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.

  
  

• Scavenger Hunt

  Description:

        Students use the week's issue to complete a graphic organizer.

  
  

• "Young Heroes" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

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

  
  

• Is That a Fact?

  Description:

        Use this reproducible to test student's comprehension of this week's issue. Students are asked to identify a fact and an opinion and determine cause and effect, among other skills.

  
  

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

  Description:

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

  
  

• "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.

  
  

• "The Heat is On!" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on global warming.

  
  

• News Clues

  Description:

        Test your students' knowledge of the stories in this week's issue with our quiz.

  
  

• "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.

  
  

• "Iraq's Uncertain Future" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's story on recent events in Iraq.

  
  

• Show What You Know

  Description:

        Test your students' knowledge of the stories in this week's issue with our quiz.

  
  

• OVERWRITE

  Description:

        OVERWRITE

  
  

• A Floating Village, USS Roosevelt

  Description:

        Use a map to find some of the places that the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevent has traveled

  
  

• Saluting America's Symbols

  Description:

        Use a chart to learn more about the history of America's national symbols

  
  

• Afghanistan and U.S. Factsheet

  Description:

        Compare and contrast the U.S. and Afghanistan with this chart

  
  

• Afghanistan and U.S. Questions

  Description:

        Assess comprehension with these questions based on a chart about the U.S. and Afghanistan

  
  

• OVERWRITE

  Description:

        OVERWRITE

  
  

• Proud to be an American

  Description:

        Read and respond to quotations about democracy, justice and character

  
  

• Words of a Nation - Freedom Quotes

  Description:

        Read what famous Americans have said about freedom and then answer questions based on the quotations

  
  

• What Happened First?

  Description:

        Place a series of events between China and the U.S. in chronological order

  
  

• Get Out the Vote

  Description:

        Use a graph to see how many Americans voted in recent elections and answer questions about voter turnout

  
  

• Top Secret

  Description:

        Have students use a legend to decipher a top secret message

  
  

• Women Paving the Way

  Description:

        Read a time line to find out about American women who were first in their field over the past 40 years

  
  

• Happy Birthday, Presidents

  Description:

        Use books, the Internet, and other resources to research information and fill in a chart about Washington and Lincoln

  
  

• Is That a Fact?

  Description:

        Distinguish opinion statements from fact statements

  
  

• Pros and Cons

  Description:

        Identify pros and cons of the BLM managing the horse population

  
  

• Built for Speed: Animals on the Run

  Description:

        Use a graph to answer questions about the fastest animals

  
  

• Animal Journal

  Description:

        Write a journal entry from the point of view of an animal that has been affected by wildfires

  
  

• Scientific Method

  Description:

        Show how paleontologists followed the scientific method when they found the fossils of the giant crocodile

  
  

• Be a Paleontologist

  Description:

        Make observations and draw conclusions based on a drawing of a giant crocodile

  
  

• Creature Features

  Description:

        Use a graph to determine, compare, and contrast the length and height of various extinct and existing animals

  
  

• "Alternative Energy Sources" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's 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 giant Martin Luther King Jr.

  
  

• In the News

  Description:

        Challenge your students to show what they know about this week's issue of TFK with our reproducible quiz.

  
  

• "Mission to Pluto" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

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

  
  

• News Clues

  Description:

        Challenge your students to show what they know about this week's issue of TFK with our reproducible quiz.

  
  

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

  Description:

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

  
  

• Inventor Organizer

  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

  
  

• "Eavesdropping On Americans" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the U.S. government's surveillance program.

  
  

• Summarize It

  Description:

        Use this reproducible to give your students practice summarizing, reading for details and thinking critically.

  
  

• "Got a Tutor?" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on the growth of the tutoring industry.

  
  

• Good For You?

  Description:

        Students read nutrition facts labels to compare potato chips with potatoes.

  
  

• It's in the News

  Description:

        Challenge your students to show what they know about the stories in this week's issue of TFK with this reproducible.

  
  

• Mind Your Own Business

  Description:

        A critical thinking activity page on planning a business

  
  

• Design a TFK Cover and Write a Story

  Description:

        A reflective writing activity page

  
  

• "Inside a News Story"

  Description:

        An activity sheet highlighting the features of a news story

  
  

• "What's the Point?"

  Description:

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

  
  

• "Theodore Roosevelt and Me"

  Description:

        Use a chart to compare yourself to President Roosevelt.

  
  

• "It’s in the Details"

  Description:

        Answer questions about Theodore Roosevelt.

  
  

• Farming in Africa

  Description:

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

  
  

• United Nations

  Description:

        Learn all about the U.N. and how it works.

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• TIME For Kids Scavenger Hunt

  Description:

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

  
  

• As Time Goes By

  Description:

        Have students use this worksheet to interpret the graphs that accompany this week’s cover story.

  
  

• Stay on Target

  Description:

        A graphic organizer

  
  

• Show What You Know

  Description:

        Have students reflect on this week’s issue.

  
  

• "READ ALL ABOUT IT!"

  Description:

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

  
  

• The Race For Governor

  Description:

        Give students practice reading a map and key with this United States map showing the election results for governor.

  
  

• The U.S. Government

  Description:

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

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• Bright Ideas

  Description:

        Have students categorize everyday inventions and reflect on their use

  
  

• Clever Inventions

  Description:

        A chart-reading activity on inventions and inventors

  
  

• "Olympic Dreams" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

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

  
  

• In the News

  Description:

        Test students' understanding of this week's issue.

  
  

• "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.

  
  

• News Clues

  Description:

        Test students' understanding of this week's issue with our reproducible quiz.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: A Thirsty World

  
  

• "Theodore Roosevelt’s Legacy"Teacher’s Guide

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• "Show What You Know"

  Description:

        Assess student’s comprehension of this week’s issue.

  
  

• "Thank You For Not Smoking" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach this week's cover story on smoking.

  
  

• Think For Yourself

  Description:

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

  
  

• "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.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: Are We Alone

  
  

• "Made in China" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

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

  
  

• Where in the World?

  Description:

        Assess students' understanding of the places, people and issues highlighted in this week's TFK.

  
  

• "I'm the Boss" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

        Teach the cover story on kid entrepreneurs

  
  

• "Get to Know TIME For Kids Teacher's Guide"

  Description:

        Explore the features of TFK magazine with this activity sheet

  
  

• "A Day at the Zoo" Teacher's Guide

  Description:

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

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• What’s New

  Description:

        Assess your students’ comprehension of this week’s issue.

  
  

• Teacher’s Guide: The Pirate Problem

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• Where are the Wildfires?

  Description:

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

  
  

• Get Organized

  Description:

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

  
  

• Have students read about four notable American Indians.

  Description:

        American Indian Heritage

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: California's Raging Fires

  
  

• School Days

  Description:

        Students answer word problems to learn more about school days in the United States.

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Famous Faces

  Description:

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

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: Time to Learn

  
  

• My Notes on J.F.K.

  Description:

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

  
  

• A Famous Quote

  Description:

        Students analyze and answer questions about one of John F. Kennedy’s most famous quotes.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: John Fitzgerald Kennedy

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: The Coolest Inventions of 2007

  
  

• Get Creative

  Description:

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

  
  

• 50 Years of Fun

  Description:

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

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: 2007 The Year in Pictures

  
  

• Online Scavenger Hunt

  Description:

        Use this worksheet to give students practice following directions and to familiarize them with TFK’s website.

  
  

• A Year in the Life

  Description:

        Use this graphic organizer to help students write about important events from the past year.

  
  

• Take a Look

  Description:

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

  
  

• What Genre Is It?

  Description:

        Students categorize books into various genres of fiction and nonfiction.

  
  

• Classes Take a Vote

  Description:

        Give students practice analyzing a double 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

  
  

• Exploring the Moon

  Description:

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

  
  

• Picking the Candidates

  Description:

        Students read a map to find out which states hold primaries, caucuses or both.

  
  

• Questions for Candidates

  Description:

        Have students reflect on the issues most important to them.

  
  

• You Can Quote Me!

  Description:

        Students analyze the words of a presidential candidate.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: Who Will Win?

  
  

• Asthma Facts

  Description:

        Have students make a booklet about asthma with this worksheet.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• My Point of View

  Description:

        Have students reflect on this week’s issue.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• Reading Pictures

  Description:

        Students can analyze a photograph with this worksheet

  
  

• A Year of News

  Description:

        Challenge students to think back on news events in 2006.

  
  

• Polar Bears in Peril

  Description:

        Have students complete a brochure on the plight of the polar bear, using information from this week’s cover story.

  
  

• News Clues

  Description:

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

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• Problem and Solution

  Description:

        Have students reflect on this week’s issue.

  
  

• Around the World Turkey

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• Calculate Your Daily Water Use

  Description:

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

  
  

• Teacher's Guide: The Afghanistan Plan

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• Tell the President

  Description:

        With this reproducible letter-writing activity students share their thoughts about the war in Iraq with the President.

  
  

• What’s the Story?

  Description:

        Have students use this graphic organizer to identify the 5Ws and H (Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How) when reading a news story.

  
  

• In My Opinion

  Description:

        Have students interview several people and present the reader with different opinions on middle schools.

  
  

• An Opinion Poll

  Description:

        Students collect and analyze data by taking a survey and making a pie chart.

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• Teacher's Guide

  
  

• Road to the White House

  Description:

        Students read a timeline and answer questions to learn about the Presidential election process.

  
  

• Fact or Opinion?

  Description:

        Have students distinguish between factual statements and opinions.

  
  

• 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

  
  

• Where a Great White Shark Swims

  Description:

        Read a map to determine where great white sharks normally live

  
  

• What's Causing the Crisis?

  Description:

        Use a Venn diagram to organize the environmental and human causes of the coral-reef crisis

  
  

• Life On The Islands

  Description:

        Use a chart about the animals found on the Galapagos Islands to answer questions

  
  

• Arctic Wildlife

  Description:

        Use a chart to answer questions about Arctic Wildlife

  
  

• I Feel Invisible

  Description:

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

  
  

• A Leading Life

  Description:

        Study a time line of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and answer questions

  
  

• Fight for Rights History Challenge

  Description:

        Take this quiz on significant events in the civil rights movement

  
  

• You Be the Expert

  Description:

        Read various situations and figure out the safest way to play

  
  

• Write To The Point

  Description:

        Use an outline to write an anti-smoking letter

  
  

• Answer Key: Fight for Rights Challenge

  Description:

        Answer Key: Fight for Rights Challenge

  
  

• Now Hear This

  
  

• KWL Chart

  Description:

        Fill in this KWL Chart about girl bullies to help identify ways to handle bullying

  
  

• Conflict Resolution

  Description:

        Answer a series of questions about conflict resolution to identify appropriate ways to deal with bullies

  
  

• Resolve Those Classroom Conflicts!

  Description:

        Read, respond, and give advice for various bullying situations