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Since 1998, The Learning Network has been helping people teach and learn with The New York Times. Here are tips for how to use our site.

Three students in a New York City classroom shared their own personal narratives, which were inspired by Metropolitan Diary, the long-running New York Times column. Read about how two teachers designed this writing unit. Credit... Kate Louis

Three ways to use The Learning Network:

Welcome to The Learning Network. Here are three quick facts about our site:

The Learning Network publishes about 1,000 teaching resources each school year, all based on using Times content - articles, essays, images, videos, graphics and podcasts - as teaching tools across subject areas.

Most of our resources are free (only our lesson plans are limited to five per month for nonsubscribers).

Our intended audience is middle and high school teachers and students (teenagers 13 and up). That said, we know that our content is used in elementary schools and colleges as well, and much of it is appropriate for both.

We'd love to hear more about you and how you use our site. If you want to join our community of educators and keep up with what's new, bookmark our home page, follow us on Facebook or Twitter or get our free weekly newsletter. Any questions, concerns or suggestions? Please write to us at LNFeedback@nytimes.com or post a comment.

Here are the three ways that teachers tell us they most commonly use our site:

School should be engaging, relevant and meaningful for students. One of our primary missions at The Learning Network is to help teachers bring current events and issues into the classroom to help students see why and how they matter in their own real lives. Here are tools we offer:

Each school day we select one current Times article, on topics ranging from sports and music to politics and world issues. We provide a warm-up, questions for reading and discussion, and an extension activity, all written directly to students. We see these quick lessons as an easy way to bring current events into the classroom; address important news topics; expand students' worldview; address media and news literacy; and offer opportunities for critical thinking about the important issues and ideas of the day.

Our 10-question interactive News Quiz tests what students know about the week's biggest stories, gives additional context about each event and shows how you stack up against other participants.

Our Country of the Week five-question quiz tests students' geography skills (e.g., can you find Peru on a map?) and then uses Times reporting, photos and videos to introduce quiz takers to a different country each week in an interactive way.

Throughout the year we publish new lesson plans that address the news. Whether it's the death of Toni Morrison, the crisis at the United States-Mexico border or the longstanding issue of segregation in schools, we have a library of hundreds of lesson plans related to current events that is growing all the time.

At the beginning of each month, we publish a collection of recent Times articles that feature young people - along with teaching ideas for using the collection.

Chances for students to engage with current events critically and creatively are woven into everything we do on The Learning Network. Via our daily writing prompts and our monthly contests, we hear from thousands of young people around the world every month - and we celebrate the best of those responses every week.

Every school day we post a new question that invites students to read a Times article and respond with their own ideas. Teachers tell us it is a good opportunity to practice writing for an authentic audience. Some of our questions ask students to make an argument, while others invite personal writing. They range in topic from social media and college admissions to gun violence and gender roles.

These short, accessible, image-driven prompts include both photographs and illustrations, and invite a variety of kinds 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.

Each day we define a new vocabulary word, show how it was used in a recent Times article and ask students to take a one-question quiz that tests whether they understand the word.

Each week we call out our favorite student comments. Teachers tell us that students get excited to see their names and writing celebrated in The New York Times!

We're running 10 student contests for the 2019-20 school year. All are open to high school students. Some are open to middle school students. Contests include: personal narratives, reviews, editorial cartoons, vocabulary videos, STEM articles, editorials, podcasts and more.

We have our own free, flexible, seven-unit writing curriculum, based on the real-world writing found in newspapers, from editorials and reviews to personal narratives and analysis essays. The curriculum uses our 1,000-plus prompts, our new mentor-text guided practice series and our many contests to frame a whole school year of writing practice, learning and publishing. Plus we offer many more lesson plans on how to teach writing and explore commonly taught literary works.

Crosswords
Our archive includes over 100 student crosswords on topics across the curriculum.

The Times is much more than just written articles, and we take full advantage of the paper's growing multimedia offerings, from images to video to graphics to podcasts.

Every Sunday night we post an intriguing photograph without its caption and ask students to think critically about what they see. On Mondays, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern time, we host a live-moderated student discussion with our partner organization, Visual Thinking Strategies. Students continue to comment all week, and then on Thursday afternoons we reveal the "back story" about the photo and what it depicts.

For this related feature, we invite students all week to notice and wonder about a Times graph, map or chart. With our partners at the American Statistical Association, we host a live-moderated discussion on Wednesdays, and publish additional background about these graphs on Thursday afternoons - around the same time we publish a new graph for the coming week.

Each week we feature a short documentary film from The Times - most are under 10 minutes - and ask students to think about themes like race and gender identity; technology and society; civil rights; criminal justice; ethics; and artistic and scientific exploration. We think these films will inspire powerful conversation, and we invite students to begin those conversations on our site.

Professional Development Webinars

Want more ideas for integrating these features into your classroom routines? Check out our free on-demand webinars, where you'll hear from teachers, students and Learning Network editors about even more ways to use this site.
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