FREEBIES -Teaching with National Geographic Explorer Magazines

Have you taught with National Geographic Extreme Explorer, National Geographic Explorer  or National Geographic Young Explorer yet?  I thought that this would be a great opportunity to blog about these magazines because you can access FREE
proectable versions of them all online!  The lessons and activities also match the common core standards!

As you can see, there are three different magazines.  Let's start with the youngest, just because it makes sense.  The National Geographic Young Explorer is for Kindergarten and Grade One.  When you visit the site, you will see that they have two different teacher's guides, one for Kindergarten, and one for Grade One.  You can access the FREE projectable edition of the March 2013 magazine here and grab the FREE pdf teacher's guides below. As you know, these can also be adapted for grades two and three as well.  We always need differentiated tasks as well!


Kindergarten Teacher's Guide March 2013
Grade 1 Teacher's Guide March 2013






Here's a peek at the teacher's guide for grade one so that you don't have to download it and delete it if it isn't for you!

PREVIEW THE GRADE ONE TEACHER'S GUIDE FOR MARCH 2013 HERE!

  

Next, there is the National Geographic Explorer Magazine.  This one is a little bit tricky because they use the same website but have to different versions of the magazine.  One is the Pioneer Edition which is for grades 2-3 and the other one is the Pathfinder Edition which is for grades 4-6.  The sample that I have is for the March 2013 Pathfinder Edition.  To take a look at the interactive copy, click here . It comes fully loaded with FREE a teacher's guide, plus it has great non-fiction articles which really captures struggling readers attention! Click here to access the entire Pathfinder Edition teacher's guide in pdf format for the March.  The interactive version allows you to highlight and make notes to the magazine as you read it on your interactive whiteboard!  The only thing it doesn't do is allow you to save it!

TAKE A PEEK AT THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORER PATHFINDER ED.
(MARCH 2013) TEACHERS GUIDE HERE:

If you teach grades 2-3, you can still access the March 2013 materials for the Pioneer Edition below.

National Geographic Explorer Pioneer Edition - Projectable Magazine

National Geographic Explorer Pioneer Teacher's Guide

Finally, the last magazine is the series is for middle school, grades 6-8.  It is called National Geographic Extreme Explorer.  Again, you can access the projectable version online for FREE and download the teacher's guide for activities and blackline masters!  Click here for the March 2013 Magazine and click here for the pdf teacher's guide.

SAMPLE FROM MARCH 2013 EXTREME EXPLORER MAGAZINE

HOW TO USE THESE MAGAZINES??

The great thing about teaching with these magazines, is that you could use these activities multiple ways in your classroom!  I have used the magazine articles for my shared reading in order to integrate science or to model writing or reading strategies. I have also used them as literacy stations and science stations (depending on topic and activity).  Many of the lessons have great links to video and other information online so it can even turn into an interactive lesson if you are lucky enough to teach with ipads or even laptops.  There's  also an ipad app for all of the magazines, which I believe you can try out for free and then subscribe to.  Check out some of the guides below to see what kind of lessons and activities you will find in the teacher's guide!  The only down side to the interactive magazine edition is that you can't save it for future use and you have to work with this month's magazine, but, if you really like something, you can head over to Promethean Planet where they sell the projectable version so you can have it for future reference.  However, if you print the magazine from the interactive version, you will always have a printed edition for future use.

Please let me know if any of the links do not work, including the pdf guides.  If you are liking what you see, head over to the websites because the April 2013 Edition of all the magazines is already ready with the teachers guides to download!

Happy Reading!