God's World News is the children's version of World Magazine.
It is available in a different format, with age appropriate content, for the following age groups:
Early Edition (PreK-1)
Taking Off (Grades 2 & 3)
News Current (Grades 4 & 5)
Top Story (Grades 6 - 9)
World for Students (Grades 10 - adult)
In each monthly edition, news stories from around the world are examined from a biblical worldview. In the subscription option for PreK - Grade 1, the news stories are written for an early-reader, with supplemental material for a parent to read that gives more details about the different news topics.
Our kids have really enjoyed learning about current events around the world and when they see news stories in the paper or online or on the news, they often make connections with what they've been reading in God's World News.
Each subscription also include an insert titled "Teaching God's World News" with suggestions for how to use the news stories as part of a homeschool curriculum. Discussion topics, writing topics, biographies, crafts and correlating Bible passages are included.
From the February 2011 edition (because someone has March stashed away in his room somewhere)...
Just a sampling from Taking Off (Grades 2 and 3):
--Black History and African ancestors
--Arguing over bees (beekeepers & farmers disagree)
--New Reagan stamp
--Rewalking invention
--Secret Civil War code cracked
--Cricket crisis in North America
--Carl Warner's supermarket art
--Stuffed germ toys (Giant Microbes)
--What Are Germs?
--U.S. government's $100 bill 3-D security strip disaster
--Did they find Amelia Earhart?
--The Cleveland Ohio Harbor Pierhead Lighthouse Icehouse
--Upcoming Olympic Games in London, England
--Conway the Mastodon
--LSU Arthropod Museum going online (Cavan can't wait for this!!!)
--What represents your country?
--407 migrating bald eagles at the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary
--"Capsule Inn" will soon open in Shanghai, China
--Woolly adelgids vs. the Idaho beetles (rescuing New England's hemlock trees)
--Hope in Southern Sudan
On the God's World News website you can also find a treasury of biographies, activities, resources, sample issues, lesson plans and current news stories.
This month's biographies:
Betsy Ross
An American Star
Jedediah Smith
An Explorer With Purpose
George Vanderbilt
Riches Left Behind
March News Stories:
Suffering in Japan
A huge earthquake shook Japan. It was the strongest in 1200 years. People died. Others are suffering. Pray...
Japan’s Disaster
TOKYO, Japan —Crumbling buildings. Gushing water. Swirling debris. The earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11...
Helpful ElephantsIt was a test. The elephants were put in pairs. Would they work together? They had to pull...
About God's Word News (from the GWN website):
Biblical Worldview--
It is the most important goal of Christian education. It's also the mission of God's World News monthly magazines using current events to develop Christian thinking and character.
News, Knowledge,
Wisdom, and Action
Each issue of God's World News provides engaging and challenging content written from a Biblical viewpoint.
News — Stories are selected and presented to show how our merciful, sovereign God is active in the world.
Knowledge — Loaded with practical tools (explainers, maps, charts, graphs, and illustrations) to educate and provide students the knowledge needed truly to understand important issues and events.
Wisdom — Written to build discernment and biblical perspective, so young people learn to think in a Christian way about what is happening in God's world.
Action — Students are encouraged to recognize ways to act upon what they have learned — to become not only "hearers," but "doers," in the spirit of James 1:22.
*GWN Mission and Doctrine Statement
Would love to hear about any current-events-news-resources that your family enjoys...
