I really like my online BBC News. It presents a view of the world, events, and issues in a manner that is often different from our home-grown talking heads.
A June 24th 'Special Report' focused on World Drugs in Graphics and presented a good summary of the current drug-usage nation-states that has a number of excellent graphs showing the data. This could be a good source for use in current events in the social studies classroom.
It is of no surprise that the US is #1 in both use of cocaine among young people and use of cannabis among young people.
A companion article titled UN shows scale of UK cocaine use took a look at the use of cocaine - and the increasing dilution of the products being illegally sold. Again, good information for a conversation with the students.
Essential Question: How can the data provided by articles be effectively used in the classroom?
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