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Google NewsGoogle News brings together news from all around the world. With Google News, you can browse headlines from your favorite newspapers and magazines, all on a single page, or you can delve more deeply into the topics that interest you most, by searching thousands of news sources at once. Google News also allows you to search archived news, putting more than 200 years of content at your fingertips—so you can find primary sources more easily, and see what real-time observers had to say about the issues and events that would become part of the fabric of history. For example, searching for "moon landing" will return results published in 1969, showing you just what people were saying when the first man walked on the moon: By giving you instant access to a variety of perspectives on almost any topic, Google News can help make your lesson plans more interesting and enlightening. If you're studying current events, for instance—like the unrest in the Middle East—you and your students can learn what observers around the world are saying about the issues. If you're studying American history—like the U.S. civil rights movement—you can quickly find primary sources to give your students a you-are-there look at important issues and events. And by setting up email news alerts, you and your students can track developments in the news on an ongoing basis. Google News broadens students' access to accounts of current and historical events, which can help deepen their understanding of the world. Using Google News to study how accounts of events in history books differ from newspaper accounts written while those events were unfolding, students can gain insight into how history is written, and develop their ability to think critically about the media. And learning to use Google News can help students research almost any topic more thoroughly, a skill that can benefit them in and out of the classroom. Learn more about Google News Found or developed a lesson using Google News? Tell us about it! Visit the new Google for Educators discussion group
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Google News is a great way to engage students in the election process and media analysis as the 2008 candidates make their run for the White House. Set up student teams to research, reflect and record (in Google Docs) links to background news stories on each candidate. Students can use Google News Archives to create a timeline of news articles and brainstorm a list of common questions to apply as they research the news (Has the candidate's views on issues changed over time? Is there anything in the background of the candidate that might prove to be a problem in the campaign?).