Kids News Websites

Here’s a list of student-oriented news websites to get students interested in current events:education

  1. Allsides (news stories compared across multiple political perspectives)
  2. BBC News (app)
  3. C News for kids
  4. Common Sense Media
  5. Kids News – Current Events
  6. Listenwise
  7. Newsela–news for kids, reformatted at different reading levels
  8. News-o-matic for kids (app)
  9. NewseumEd
  10. News for Kids–free
  11. Newspaper Navigator–from the Library of Congress; search endless newspapers
  12. PBS Newshour Extra–for grades 7-12
  13. Reach Out Reporter — science news for elementary students
  14. Scholastic
  15. TeachingKidsNews
  16. TweenTribune–by Smithsonian
  17. US News Map–the news headlines between 1789 and 1922
  18. Youngzine
  19. Youth Radio
  20. Yummy Math—math news

I update it every few months here.


Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

Author: Jacqui
Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.