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WORLD Watch is an online subscription only daily news source for teenage students. Each weekday students can log in and listen to daily news delivered in ten minutes. WORLD Watch news reports cover: history, technology, science, economics, government, world cultures, etc. worldwatch.news cares about the content that your students hear and so as a parent you can feel good knowing that all news reporting has as its foundation, biblical discernment. "Whatever the news, the purpose of the Lord will stand." The news is reported in a way that students can understand the stories on their level.
Every weekday morning you will receive an email link for the daily WORLD Watch news. It will have a headline picture and then, Today on WORLD Watch...listing the major headlines for the day. There will be a button that you can click that will take you right to the site.
What is great about WORLD Watch is all of the news reports are recorded. You do not have to watch the full ten minute report in one sitting. You can break it up into more than one sitting if needed. If your student is bogged down with schoolwork and cannot watch the news that day they can simply click on the day or days that they missed. The news is archived by month and goes back all of the way to the end of 2020. The archive is a wonderful feature if your student needs to research a particular topic for school. They can search the archive using keywords.
The main stories covered each day are summarized underneath the headline each day.
The headline story was about the fires threatening Lake Tahoe.
One of the other main stories was President Biden's decision to evacuate Afghanistan.
They briefly talked about President Biden's Approval Ratings.
Another major story was Texas's fetal heartbeat bill that makes it illegal to
abort any baby after the detection of a heartbeat.
The main story was the Olympics finally beginning after a year long
wait. No spectators meant that the stands would be eerily silent. Three times
in the history of the Olympics had the Olympics been canceled and that was
in 1916, 1940, and 1944. All eyes would be upon Simone Biles.
The Mars Rover, Perseverance, is digging on Mars in the soil for
the Jezero Crator's composition.
The cicadas have come and gone and have left behind what is called flagging.
Essentially, slits in the branches of trees where the cicadas left their eggs. This flagging
causes the tree leaves to die. Eventually the eggs hatch will fall and burrow into the ground.
They will remerge as cicadas in 2038.
The stories are not all serious. Some of the stories are downright funny, entertaining, and just fun to watch. Here are a few of those stories:
- Burkina Faso, which is in Africa has chickens dubbed "bicycle chickens" that are delivered via the bicycle to restaurants, fresh.
- Idaho actually has a one of a kind, single BNB in the shape of a giant potato.
- A Russian student combines her love of science and art to make Mold Art. She grows bacteria in Petri dishes. She collects bacteria everywhere she goes throughout the day and combines it in a Petri dish to create art.
- What in the Word? Flying By the Seat of Your Pants. This phrase comes from aviation. Douglas Corrigan wanted to fly from New York to Dublin, Ireland. American Aviation Authorities denied his request. So he planned his flight to California instead. He headed the wrong way and ended up in Ireland. The American Aviation Authorities did not buy his story that he got lost and went the wrong way. He had to get back to America. Upon his return by boat he was greeted by a ticker tape parade. Headlines news said, "Corrigan Flies By the Seat of His Pants."
- Signature Science: Squirrels ~ In this news episode they are using flying squirrels to help scientists understand the decision making skills of these squirrels with their leaps and jumps. The scientists created an obstacle course to help them understand this data.
What is nice about the news that WORLD Watch puts out is that it is just that, it is NEWS. It is totally unbiased. They give you the facts of stories from around the world and do not put a political spin on them. They are not criticizing, putting down, or badmouthing anyone. They are just reporting the news. WORLD Watch has a
30-Day FREE Trial to see if it is right for your family.
I was impressed with the content provided each day. I liked knowing that my teens could watch daily news and hear current events without the drama that has drawn me away from watching mainstream news. The added segments on science, technology, history, etc. are definitely worth watching. Be sure to read what my
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