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| Whether you’re here for the first time or have been visiting our site regularly for the last 18 years, we invite you to take a look around. | Whether you’re here for the first time or have been visiting our site regularly for the last 18 years, we invite you to take a look around. |
| Every school day since 1998, we have offered fresh classroom resources — from lesson plans and writing prompts to news quizzes, student contests and more — all based on the articles, essays, images, videos and graphics published on NYTimes.com. | Every school day since 1998, we have offered fresh classroom resources — from lesson plans and writing prompts to news quizzes, student contests and more — all based on the articles, essays, images, videos and graphics published on NYTimes.com. |
| As we transition from the blog that has been our home since 2009, we’re bringing along our most popular features, but organizing them in a way we hope makes them easier to find. And, since our new site is mobile-friendly, we hope they’ll be easier to access too. | As we transition from the blog that has been our home since 2009, we’re bringing along our most popular features, but organizing them in a way we hope makes them easier to find. And, since our new site is mobile-friendly, we hope they’ll be easier to access too. |
| One thing we haven’t changed: a commenting system that, over the years, has brought us hundreds of thousands of responses from teenagers around the world. So whether the students you know are interested in politics or pop culture, science or sports, fashion, food or foreign affairs, invite them here to join the conversation. | One thing we haven’t changed: a commenting system that, over the years, has brought us hundreds of thousands of responses from teenagers around the world. So whether the students you know are interested in politics or pop culture, science or sports, fashion, food or foreign affairs, invite them here to join the conversation. |
| Below, a list of what we’re offering this school year, and how to find and use it. | Below, a list of what we’re offering this school year, and how to find and use it. |
| Questions? Concerns? Ideas? Post a comment, follow us on Facebook or Twitter, write to us at LNFeedback@nytimes.com, or get our weekly email to keep up with what’s new. | Questions? Concerns? Ideas? Post a comment, follow us on Facebook or Twitter, write to us at LNFeedback@nytimes.com, or get our weekly email to keep up with what’s new. |
| And, as always, thank you for teaching and learning with The New York Times. | And, as always, thank you for teaching and learning with The New York Times. |
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| All our activities for students, as well as all the content from The Times to which we link, are free and accessible without a digital subscription. | All our activities for students, as well as all the content from The Times to which we link, are free and accessible without a digital subscription. |
| You can find the features we describe below by clicking on the different images, shown above, that appear on our home page. | You can find the features we describe below by clicking on the different images, shown above, that appear on our home page. |
| • Find discussion questions about an important or compelling news story with our Article of the Day feature. | • Find discussion questions about an important or compelling news story with our Article of the Day feature. |
| Teachers tell us they use Article of the Day both as mini-lesson plans and as homework or extra-credit assignments students can complete on their own. | Teachers tell us they use Article of the Day both as mini-lesson plans and as homework or extra-credit assignments students can complete on their own. |
| On our new site, we now also have a separate column for articles that deal with science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) topics. | On our new site, we now also have a separate column for articles that deal with science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) topics. |
| • Access collections of high-interest articles about young people via our monthly Teenagers in The Times feature. | • Access collections of high-interest articles about young people via our monthly Teenagers in The Times feature. |
| On the first Friday of each month, we recognize newsworthy young people by collecting all the recent Times articles about them in one place. | On the first Friday of each month, we recognize newsworthy young people by collecting all the recent Times articles about them in one place. |
| Use the feature’s articles to inspire student projects and goals, as models for journalistic writing, as nonfiction companion pieces to literature, or simply as a way to hook young people on reading the newspaper. Here are more teaching ideas, as well as an activity sheet (PDF) you can use with any month’s collection. | Use the feature’s articles to inspire student projects and goals, as models for journalistic writing, as nonfiction companion pieces to literature, or simply as a way to hook young people on reading the newspaper. Here are more teaching ideas, as well as an activity sheet (PDF) you can use with any month’s collection. |
| • Comment on our daily Student Opinion question. | • Comment on our daily Student Opinion question. |
| Each week thousands of teenagers from around the world post their thoughts to our student questions, and teachers tell us it’s a great place for them to engage with current events, practice good “Web citizen” skills and hone the ability to make and defend arguments. | Each week thousands of teenagers from around the world post their thoughts to our student questions, and teachers tell us it’s a great place for them to engage with current events, practice good “Web citizen” skills and hone the ability to make and defend arguments. |
| Since we read all comments submitted, and won’t publish them unless they meet New York Times commenting standards, it’s also a safe place to post. | Since we read all comments submitted, and won’t publish them unless they meet New York Times commenting standards, it’s also a safe place to post. |
| Assign your students (13 and up, please) a particular question or have them scroll through all our questions to find some that interest them. (The questions we have posed since September 2015 are still open to comment; those published earlier, via an older system, are unfortunately now closed.) | Assign your students (13 and up, please) a particular question or have them scroll through all our questions to find some that interest them. (The questions we have posed since September 2015 are still open to comment; those published earlier, via an older system, are unfortunately now closed.) |
| • Or, have fun with our Tuesday-Friday Picture Prompts. | • Or, have fun with our Tuesday-Friday Picture Prompts. |
| New for school year 2016-17, these are short, accessible, image-driven prompts that include both photographs and illustrations, and invite a variety of writing. Each links to a related Times article, but all students need to start writing is the image itself and the short, simple language we use to introduce it. | New for school year 2016-17, these are short, accessible, image-driven prompts that include both photographs and illustrations, and invite a variety of writing. Each links to a related Times article, but all students need to start writing is the image itself and the short, simple language we use to introduce it. |
| Here are several ways classrooms of all kinds might use the feature, online or off. | Here are several ways classrooms of all kinds might use the feature, online or off. |
| • Keep up with the news of the day through our interactive news quizzes. | • Keep up with the news of the day through our interactive news quizzes. |
| Take our 10-question interactive News Quiz to test what you know about the week’s biggest stories, to learn additional context about each event, and to see how you stack up against other participants. | Take our 10-question interactive News Quiz to test what you know about the week’s biggest stories, to learn additional context about each event, and to see how you stack up against other participants. |
| • Enrich your vocabulary with our Word of the Day + Quiz. | • Enrich your vocabulary with our Word of the Day + Quiz. |
| Our Word of the Day includes not just a definition and an example in the context of a recent Times article, but also a related quiz that tests whether you really understand each word. | Our Word of the Day includes not just a definition and an example in the context of a recent Times article, but also a related quiz that tests whether you really understand each word. |
| • Visit our archive of over 100 Student Crosswords on topics across the curriculum. | • Visit our archive of over 100 Student Crosswords on topics across the curriculum. |
| • Participate in a live visual-literacy discussion each week via What’s Going On in This Picture? | • Participate in a live visual-literacy discussion each week via What’s Going On in This Picture? |
| Every Monday morning we post a photograph without its caption or other identifying information and ask students to think critically about “What’s Going On in This Picture?” | Every Monday morning we post a photograph without its caption or other identifying information and ask students to think critically about “What’s Going On in This Picture?” |
| From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern time, students are invited to post in our comments section about what they see and why, while a moderator from our partner organization, Visual Thinking Strategies, acts as a facilitator to further the conversation. On Friday mornings, we reveal the “back story” about the photo and what it depicts. | From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern time, students are invited to post in our comments section about what they see and why, while a moderator from our partner organization, Visual Thinking Strategies, acts as a facilitator to further the conversation. On Friday mornings, we reveal the “back story” about the photo and what it depicts. |
| You can learn more about how this feature teaches close-reading and visual-literacy skills here. | You can learn more about how this feature teaches close-reading and visual-literacy skills here. |
| • Join our weekly Film Club to watch and discuss short documentary movies. | • Join our weekly Film Club to watch and discuss short documentary movies. |
| Via award-winning series like Op-Docs, The Times offers documentaries, most under 15 minutes, that touch on issues like race and gender identity; technology and society; civil rights; criminal justice; ethics; and artistic and scientific exploration. | Via award-winning series like Op-Docs, The Times offers documentaries, most under 15 minutes, that touch on issues like race and gender identity; technology and society; civil rights; criminal justice; ethics; and artistic and scientific exploration. |
| Every Friday, we post a film we think will inspire powerful conversation, and invite students to begin those conversations on our site. | Every Friday, we post a film we think will inspire powerful conversation, and invite students to begin those conversations on our site. |
| Above: A winning entry in our 2013 15-Second Vocabulary Video Contest. | Above: A winning entry in our 2013 15-Second Vocabulary Video Contest. |
| • Compete in our student contests, all of them open to any teenager anywhere in the world. | • Compete in our student contests, all of them open to any teenager anywhere in the world. |
| We love contests, and we’re always inventing new ones. Whether writing reviews or raps, creating vocabulary videos or found poems, crafting written editorials or editorial cartoons, we hope there’s something on the list for everyone. | We love contests, and we’re always inventing new ones. Whether writing reviews or raps, creating vocabulary videos or found poems, crafting written editorials or editorial cartoons, we hope there’s something on the list for everyone. |
| • Find a calendar of this year’s contests so you can plan ahead. | • Find a calendar of this year’s contests so you can plan ahead. |
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| We offer teachers five free lessons a month, but you can also subscribe individually at the education rate or via a schoolwide plan to access all of NYTimes.com plus our full library of lesson resources. | |
| By visiting our Lessons page and clicking on the appropriate section, pictured above, you can find materials for English language arts, social studies, math, science and the arts, as well as lessons addressing English language learners and spotlighting key current events. | By visiting our Lessons page and clicking on the appropriate section, pictured above, you can find materials for English language arts, social studies, math, science and the arts, as well as lessons addressing English language learners and spotlighting key current events. |
| • Discover new, Common Core-aligned lesson plans every week. | • Discover new, Common Core-aligned lesson plans every week. |
| We publish at least one new lesson plan each week of the school year, on topics drawn from front-page news as well as from other sections of The New York Times. | We publish at least one new lesson plan each week of the school year, on topics drawn from front-page news as well as from other sections of The New York Times. |
| Use them to make connections to current events in your social studies or E.L.A. classroom; incorporate recent research or new Times features into STEM lessons; draw on both Times archival articles and current popular culture to teach literature or history; or teach a cross-curricular skill or strategy via a Times article or feature. | Use them to make connections to current events in your social studies or E.L.A. classroom; incorporate recent research or new Times features into STEM lessons; draw on both Times archival articles and current popular culture to teach literature or history; or teach a cross-curricular skill or strategy via a Times article or feature. |
| To quickly scan all the lessons we published in 2015-16, visit this post. | To quickly scan all the lessons we published in 2015-16, visit this post. |
| • Get your ideas for teaching with The Times published. | • Get your ideas for teaching with The Times published. |
| If you would like to see your idea on our site, send it in to us here. | If you would like to see your idea on our site, send it in to us here. |
| Your idea can be elaborate or simple, might involve a whole school or just one child, and could employ multiple sections of the daily paper or one dog-eared article you clipped in 2003. We’re just interested in hearing about how people are using The Times in as wide a variety of educational settings as possible. | Your idea can be elaborate or simple, might involve a whole school or just one child, and could employ multiple sections of the daily paper or one dog-eared article you clipped in 2003. We’re just interested in hearing about how people are using The Times in as wide a variety of educational settings as possible. |
| You can always search our site by scrolling down below all the images to the stream of our latest articles. | You can always search our site by scrolling down below all the images to the stream of our latest articles. |
| There you will find a search field that looks like this: | There you will find a search field that looks like this: |
| Typing in terms will return results from The Learning Network both past and present. | Typing in terms will return results from The Learning Network both past and present. |
| Finally, though the features below haven’t yet moved to this new site, you can still access them by clicking the links. | Finally, though the features below haven’t yet moved to this new site, you can still access them by clicking the links. |
| • Learn what happened On This Day in History | • Learn what happened On This Day in History |
| • Teach any day’s edition of The Times with our activity sheets. | • Teach any day’s edition of The Times with our activity sheets. |
| • Read a poem paired with a related Times article. | • Read a poem paired with a related Times article. |
| • Find a series of quizzes and writing prompts for E.L.L. students. | • Find a series of quizzes and writing prompts for E.L.L. students. |
| • Read about our 2015-16 teenage Student Council and view its members’ work. | • Read about our 2015-16 teenage Student Council and view its members’ work. |
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| The School of The New York Times | The School of The New York Times |
| Subscribe to The Times individually at the education rate | Subscribe to The Times individually at the education rate |
| Subscribe to The Times schoolwide | Subscribe to The Times schoolwide |
| The New York Times College Scholarship Program | The New York Times College Scholarship Program |
| The New York Times Upfront | The New York Times Upfront |
| Make an education donation | Make an education donation |
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| Thank you again for teaching and learning with The Times. Please let us know what you think of our new site! | Thank you again for teaching and learning with The Times. Please let us know what you think of our new site! |