National Nutrition Month concentrates on various aspects of health, including nutrition, exercise, and healthful life choices. The Post-Gazette has teamed up with the Pittsburgh Pirates to bring you an exciting math program. Major League Math, for grades 3-8, teaches fundamental math concepts through examining baseball statistics. Students review addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, decimals, percentages, ratios and word problems through Pirates player profiles and Major League statistics in the Post-Gazette. The PG Science Program traces developments in science as reported in the Post-Gazette.
Topics covered include ecology, medicine, technology and computers.
Weekly worksheets focus specifically on the topics covered in the Post-Gazette Science and Environment section. A curriculum guide with extended newspaper activities is also made available to teachers. Based on the popular PG Benchmarks series, the Jr. Benchmarks program is written for students in the middle grades. The program focuses on local communities, the greater Pittsburgh community, the interdependence of local communities with Pittsburgh, and ways in which all communities can be improved. Students are also asked to look beyond their local community and Pittsburgh to the city that ranks first in the nation according to the PG Benchmarks series.