12/10/2019: Woman arrested for not using métro escalator handrail awarded $20,000 - Chew On This: Farmers Are Using Food Waste To Make Electricity

Today's Article: Woman arrested for not using métro escalator handrail awarded $20,000
From: Montreal Gazette
Readability Score: 11.5

Must all orders from police be obeyed, or only lawful ones?

Click here to view the entire article and classroom discussion questions:
https://www.izzit.org/events/index.php

Today's Alternate Article: Chew On This: Farmers Are Using Food Waste To Make Electricity
Readability Score: 8.4

Sign in here to access the full lessons! 

8/26/2019: Red-light cameras undermine rule of law - Opinion Piece - Control Locusts By Growing Crops They Don't Like

Today's Article: Red-light cameras undermine rule of law - Opinion Piece
From: The Hill
Readability Score: 10.9

Are red-light cameras Constitutional? Do you have a right to face your accuser?

Click here to view the entire article and classroom discussion questions:
https://www.izzit.org/events/index.php

Today's Alternate Article: Control Locusts By Growing Crops They Don't Like
Readability Score: 9.4

Sign in here to access the full lessons! 

4/25/2019: The Growing Impatience of India's Farmers - Graffiti punished by reading: "It worked!" says prosecutor

Today's Article: The Growing Impatience of India's Farmers
From: US News and World Report
Readability Score: 10.4

Drought has ravaged rural India and farmers are struggling. How has the government responded? What are the most effective ways to help farmers improve their lives? Today's article has lots of economic connections-- check it out!

Click here to view the entire article and classroom discussion questions:
https://www.izzit.org/events/index.php

Today's Alternate Article: Graffiti punished by reading: "It worked!" says prosecutor
Readability Score: 9.1

Sign in here to access the full lessons!

New Release....No More Skinny Sheep

Baaa-dd idea?

If the government paid you per head of sheep in your pasture, how many sheep would you put in it? More than you should? More than was healthy or environmentally sound?

In New Zealand, where agriculture is a main source of income, farmers used to get 30% of their income from government subsidies. That all changed in the mid-1980s, when the subsidies were abolished. How did farmers manage? How did they become so competitive on the global market today?

Find out how New Zealand’s sheep went from skinny to healthy!

To learn more about No More Skinny Sheep or to create your FREE account click here.

New Release....They've Got Tech: Next-Gen Farmers

Dairy farmers in New Zealand demonstrate uses of technology in farming.

If you think farming is a low-tech operation, you'd be wrong! These next-gen New Zealand dairy farmers aren't just using technology and data to improve profit and reduce the environmental impact of their herds, they're inventing it.

 Click here to choose as your FAV (Free annual video).

Click here to choose as your FAV (Free annual video).

Click here to purchase.

Click here to stream to your device.

5/22/2017: Is Grass-Fed Dairy Healthier for You? - Parents Don’t Want to Name Their Kids Mike Anymore

Today's Article: Is Grass-Fed Dairy Healthier for You?
From: MSN
Readability Score: 10.5

The Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve a new infant formula made from the milk of cows that are on pasture 365 days a year.

Click here to view the entire article and classroom discussion questions:
http://www.izzit.org/events/index.php

Today's Alternate Article: Parents Don’t Want to Name Their Kids Mike Anymore
Readability Score: 7.3

Sign in here to access the full lessons!

OR

Send your students to log in to the Student Zone!

1/19/2017: Why Getting Farmers to Switch from Tobacco Crops is a Struggle - Helping Your Child Comfort a Grieving Pal

Today's Article: Why Getting Farmers to Switch from Tobacco Crops is a Struggle
From: CNBC
Readability Score: 15.0

Ninety percent of tobacco is grown within low and middle income countries ... where four in five smokers live

Click here to view the entire article and classroom discussion questions:
http://www.izzit.org/events/index.php

Today's Alternate Article: Helping Your Child Comfort a Grieving Pal
Readability Score: 7.8

Sign in here to access the full lessons!

OR

Send your students to log in to the Student Zone!

9/30/2016: Why School Should Start Later in the Day - English Farmer Paints His Entire Flock of Sheep Orange

Today's Article: Why School Should Start Later in the Day
From: Los Angeles Times
Readability Score: 11.2

Each fall, groggy teenagers resign themselves to another year of fighting their body clocks so they can get to class on time.

Click here to view the entire article and classroom discussion questions:
http://www.izzit.org/events/index.php

Today's Alternate Article: English Farmer Paints His Entire Flock of Sheep Orange
Readability Score: 7.8

Sign in here to access the full lessons! 

OR

Send your students to log in to the Student Zone!