Learning Network: What will stick with you from 2024?

December 20, 2024

Dear Reader,

As 2024 comes to an end and the holiday break arrives, we have many activities to get students writing, discussing and reflecting:

Recent Picture Prompts invite students to share their plans for holiday break and to reflect on 2024 by looking through the Times’s Year in Pictures.
Recent Student Opinion questions ask students to let us know how they feel about winter and to consider what will stick with them from 2024.
Plus, we have our special end-of-year news quiz with 48 questions about the year in international, national, arts and sports news.

See you in January.

Sincerely,
The Learning Network

RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

A woman in a dark fur coat and black sunglasses stands on a bright green D.J. booth. A young crowd watches with their phones out.

Sinna Nasseri for The New York Times

Student Opinion

What Will Stick With You From 2024?

What from your own life, around the globe, or in the world of art, culture and sports will you remember about this year?

By Shannon Doyne

A slide show of notable pictures including the first presidential debate, the Paris Olympics, a celebrating crowd in Syria and a howitzer in Ukraine.

The New York Times

Picture Prompts

2024 in Pictures

Which of the images in this Times collection best capture how you’ll remember this year?

By The Learning Network

A grid of six images including: Trump/Vance and Harris/Walz signs in a yard; a young person with reflective glasses looking upward; Caitlin Clark dribbling on a court; a pygmy hippo; Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo as Glinda and Elphaba looking into a mirror; and two boys looking out onto a pile of rubble with a crowd behind them.

Clockwise, from top left: Hannah Beier for The New York Times; Ashley Gilbertson for The New York Times; Alika Jenner/Getty Images; Perawongmetha/Reuters; Giles Keyte, via Universal Pictures; Mohammed Salem, via Reuters

Student News Quiz

Special End-of-Year 2024 News Quiz for Students

See what you remember about this extraordinary year by taking our special 2024 news quiz.

Compiled by The Learning Network

An illustration of a figure in a white winter landscape looking at a snowman sitting on a bench with his arms out in a welcoming gesture. There is a butterfly perched above one of his arms.

Illustration by Nicolás Ortega; Photographs by Getty Images

Student Opinion

How Do You Feel About Winter?

This season can be difficult, but experts share how to make it more bearable. What can you find to love about winter?

By Natalie Proulx

Student Opinion

What Is Your Choice for Word of the Year?

The Oxford English Dictionary picked “brain rot” as its 2024 Word of the Year. Do you agree?

By Jeremy Engle

Against the backdrop of a glacier, whose blue ice appears to spill between low stony hills into a frozen lake, a group of skaters, mostly children, skate and play hockey on the frozen surface of the lake. A brown and white dog stands on the ice, looking on.

Christopher Miller for The New York Times

Picture Prompts

Holiday Break

How will you spend your time off from school?

By The Learning Network

Two sets of hands hold a gift wrapped in red patterned paper and a white bow.

Thomas Trutschel/Photothek, via Getty Images

Student Opinion

Do You Like Giving and Receiving Gifts?

A Wirecutter editor writes that presents are “a tactile gesture of love and appreciation.” Do you agree?

By Shannon Doyne and Natalie Proulx

An illustration of several objects, including peanuts, holiday ornaments and a topless doll, surrounded by festive curls of pink ribbon.

Maddie Fischer

Student Opinion

Do You Have Any Special or Unusual Holiday Traditions?

Times readers shared their fun, unique and eccentric holiday rituals — like singing to the turkey with a sibling while it roasts outside. What are yours?

By Jeremy Engle

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