The 2012 HISTORY BEE will be Friday, March 30, in the Frederick Community College Field House! The theme is "You Can Bee One Two! encouraging all third-, fourth- and fifth-graders to put on their thinking caps and try out for the Bee of '12!
What is the History Bee? 
It's a fun day of competition, offered to all 3rd-, 4th- and 5th-graders in Frederick County Schools.
Each school can send two students from each grade to participate, and one alternate student from each grade to compete in an Alternate Bee. The students will be tested in two preliminary elimination rounds, answering questions appropriate to their grade level. The two top students from each table move on to the next round.
The Alternate Bee winners from each grade are determined after the second round. All other students move to the Final Round, which is set up much like a Spelling Bee, where the finalists are individually asked questions regarding Frederick's history. If they get the question right, they remain on stage; If they answer the question incorrectly, they are eliminated. The three remaining students at the end of the round win!
History Bee FAQs
CLICK HERE for general information regarding the day of the event and what to expect! (pdf)
PRACTICE QUESTIONS
The 2012 History Bee practice questions will begin appearing on The Especially 4 Kids page on Tuesday, January 3rd.
INTERACTIVE QUIZ
Every year, we prepare an online interactive quiz with questions about Frederick County to prepare students for the Final Round of competition. This quiz will be posted on January 3, 2012 RIGHT HERE!
TO REGISTER:
When you sign up your school to participate, you'll receive a packet of information and a FINAL REGISTRATION FORM, which must be completed with the names of all your participating students and returned BY FRIDAY, MARCH 2. You can mail the completed form to NIE, 351 Ballenger Center Drive, Frederick, MD 21703; or send as an attachment here.
*You MUST be the point of contact in order to sign up your school! If you will not be in charge of your school's HB participation, please pass along the link below to the appropriate person.*
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP YOUR SCHOOL TODAY!
This year's QUEEN BEE SPONSOR is
2 convenient locations:
141 West Patrick Street, Suite 300, Frederick
Phone: 301-694-6262
19833 Leitersburg Pike, Suite 1, Hagerstown
Phone: 301-293-0100
Especially 4 Kids Page
January 24, 2012 through February 27, 2012
The Story of Black History
By Debby and Ned Carroll
Illustrations by Roel Wielinga
It was more than 500 years ago that black people were taken from their homelands and brought to America. What was it likes to be suddenly taken from home and placed in a new land? Learn about the Underground Railroad and important people who helped change history and were instrumental in ending slavery.
The Story of Black History Teacher's Guide is available to NIE teachers by logging in to FNPnie.com.
September 27, 2011 through January 10, 2012
Menace on Horse Creek Trail
By Elizabeth McDavid Jones
Illustrations by Roelina Wielinga
The year is 1847. Nancy Stearnes and her family are making their way West in their wagon, along with many others on the Oregon Trail. It's a long, difficult journey, full of sadness, trials and mystery. Do they reach their destination? And how does a newspaper solve the ultimate mystery? Find out in this 15-chapter serial story, full of American history.
Keep your eye on the Especially 4 Kids page each week for a new chapter of the story, as well as activities related to Character Education, History, Geography and Agriculture. This serial story is printed with permission from Hot Topics Hot Serials.
The Menace on Horse Creek Trail Teacher's Guide is available to NIE teachers by logging in to FNPnie.com.
The 2012 Design an Ad tabloid will be published on May 1, 2012. Teachers must sign up by January 20th to participate. Click here to sign up.
During the Design an Ad program, middle school students and teachers team up with business owners to create an ad for a local business. Middle School Students (grades 6-8) are asked to use their artistic talents to design an ad that is paid for by the business owner. The winning ads were displayed in a special publication of The Frederick News-Post on May 1, 2012!
The contest provides students the opportunity to apply their studies in Language Arts and Visual Arts, while challenging them to use creativity, logic and critical thinking skills as they create ads for an advertiser in The Frederick News-Post. The Design-an-Ad competition augments Frederick County Language Arts and Visual Arts curriculum.
Thank you to everyone who participated in Design an Ad 2011 and congrats to all our winners!
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE 2011 DESIGN AN AD TABLOID! (pdf)
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE 2010 DESIGN AN AD TABLOID! (pdf)
The Great Frederick Fair Media Core (Sept. 2011)
FNP partners with The Great Frederick Fair each year to provide students with a chance to be a part of the fair's daily newsletter. Students from different schools are matched up with editors and reporters from The Frederick News-Post to learn the "ins and outs" of producing articles and page designs under a tight deadline. At the end of the week, six students with the top print and broadcast products were presented with awards.
Congratulations to the following students and schools:
Best Photo: Oakedale High School Paw Print Staff
- Honorable Mention: Bailey Hayek, Urbana/Linganore High
Best Article: Carm Saimbre, Gov. Thomas Johnson High
- Honorable Mention: Amanda Goodwell, Gov. Thomas Johnson High
Best Lay-out: Middletown High
- Honorable Mention: Urbana/Linganore High
We hope you all enjoyed participating in this year's Media Core!
Pigskin Geography (Sept. 13-Dec. 13, 2011)
It's time for some PIGSKIN!
Check the Especially 4 Kids page each week for the Team Standings! A winner will be determined in December right before the holiday break.
Pigskin Geography is a friendly competition for 4th through 9th grade teams. Questions are provided on the Especially 4 Kids page every Tuesday that connect geography with an upcoming NFL game. (For example, "What team will fly over the Royal Gorge near Canon City, Colorado, en route to their game?") Each correct answer gets a certain amount of points. The team with the most points at the end of 14 weeks wins a classroom pizza party!
Last year we had 10 teams compete from different schools around the county, and the winning team was a 5th grade class at Urbana Elementary!
Follow NIE on Twitter!
Our Twitter account offers daily activities and other ways to use the newspaper in the classroom and updates to NIE programs and events! To start "following" NIE, go to www.twitter.com/fnpnie.
It's Newspaper in Education Week!
Newspaper in Education Week, a program of the Newspaper Association of America Foundation, is observed during the first school week of March. The goal of NIE Week is to reinforce a positive and relevant lifetime reading habit in students by engaging them with an authentic text – the newspaper.
Each year there is a new theme and resource guide.
NIE teachers, when you log in here, you can access a teacher's guide, two "flip books" and "companion guides" to go with the flip books. All the materials align with the NIE Week 2011 theme and target three areas vital to developing well-rounded, successful students and citizens -- civics, math and fine arts.
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An understanding of civics is central to students' growing up to understand and participate in government, elections and community life. - Math is the underpinning of technology, science and financial literacy.
- Fine arts inspire the creativity that finds expression in everything from entertainment to architecture to new and dynamic forms of communication.
In each subject area, the NIE Week "Power Pack," or teachers' guide, provides standards-based activities to enhance student learning in elementary school, middle school and high school. Its goal is not only to help students achieve more accomplished lives, but richer ones as well.
Download the free materials by logging on and clicking "Media Literacy." If you have problems accessing the materials, please send an email here.
The Frederick News-Post Newspaper in Education program has teamed up with USA Weekend Magazine to offer middle and high school teachers free resources to connect their classroom discussions with topics that interest today's teens.
Each Monday, you'll receive a teacher's guide, questions for discussion, student lessons, and additional resources to go along with the main feature of each Sunday’s USA Weekend insert, published in The Frederick News-Post and included on our website.
To receive USA WiE materials each Monday, click on the USA Weekend in Education logo to the right.
To request additional information about USA WiE and what we can offer you through our NIE program, click here.
The Great Frederick Fair Media Core Sept., 2010
Congratulations to the following students and schools:
Best Photo: Ali Berger, Gov. Thomas Johnson High, "Fasten Your Seatbelt"
- Honorable Mention: Emily Ewin, Tuscarora High, "First Time at Great Frederick Fair"
Best Story: Chelsea Titus and Shannon McKenna, Middletown High, "And They're Off"
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Honorable Mention: Ryan Humphrey and Jenel Mayo, Frederick High, "Planting Jobs
for the Future"
Best Lay-out: Frederick High School
- Honorable Mention: Tuscarora High School
