The Interactive Museum of News
I just found a fabulous site that I would use in a grade 8 or 9 classroom. Students often need to find news articles pertaining to different topics, and may also do reports on events that have happened throughout history. Newseum is an interactive museum that would be a great resource for students. It allows you to look at the front page of over 250 newspapers from around the world (each day), and also has photos, cartoons, war stories, information about September 11th, and articles about the Holocaust. I would have my students visit this site in social studies or language arts. One thing that I really want to do in my classroom is have a student share a current event each day (the first couple minutes of the day). This would be a great site for the students to go to, to choose an article that they are interested in (something possibly from the front page of a newspaper).

This site is very user friendly. I like the fact that it makes research so much easier. I remember going to the library and flipping through the filing cabinets full of articles. It sucked. The new technology that is available makes this task much more enjoyable, causing students to hopefully learn more. I especially like this site because there may be something that catches a student's eye, and then they might read about it to gain some more information.