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Currents4Kids and News4Youth

These Canadian Social Studies Subscription resources (Grades 3-12) and learning tools feature weekly articles about important news stories and empower students to understand and explore current events around the world. 

Currents4Kids (Grades 3-7)

Currents4Kids is a Canadian Social Studies resource featuring weekly articles about important news stories. It empowers students to understand and explore current events worldwide. 

News4Youth (Grades 7-12)

News4Youth (Grades 7-12) is an online teaching resource that brings current world events alive! Students gain weekly access to articles carefully selected from credible news sites such as cbc.ca, which are non-sensational, significant within society, and relevant to students and the curriculum. 

This subscription is not available to HCOS Registered students.

Logging In

Contact your support teacher and request a Currents4Kids or a News4Youth account. Next, navigate to Currents4Kids or News4Youth and log in using the provided information.

Navigation & Use

Select "Home" from the blue bar to find the articles.

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Read below to learn more about the specific features offered by Currents4Kids.

Listen to the Article

Select the arrow beneath the photo caption to hear the pre-recorded articles read aloud. Select "slow," "normal," or "fast" to set the speed at which you hear the article.

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Find Definitions

To use the dictionary box located in the margin to the left of each article, type the word you’d like to look up in the box. Click ‘Go’.

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Take Quizzes

Each article has two quizzes. Both consist of five multiple-choice or true/false questions.  

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To complete the quizzes, select the ‘Quizzes’ tab underneath the article's title.
Students can respond to the questions individually and find their results after completing the quiz. Teachers will see all the questions and possible responses.

  • Students may listen to each segment of the quiz as they read by selecting the arrow to the left of the segment.

  • While taking a quiz, students may go back and reread for information by selecting ‘View Story.’

  • Students may also change previously completed answers by selecting ‘Prev.’ They can navigate forward by selecting ‘Next’.

  • When finished, students click ‘Finish’ and then ‘View your results’ in the blue header to see their results. Alternatively, they can click ‘view’ in the table showing their quiz attempt #, date, and score.

  • If students have to stop a quiz, they can select ‘save and exit’ and resume where they left off later.

Find Helpful Tutorials

Scroll to the bottom of the Subscription page and select “help & tutorials.” Scroll down on the next page that loads to “#2 Using Articles.”

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