Every week, our Week in Rap Shout Out Contest gives students an opportunity to win a shout out for their school in the next Week in Rap. Last week, we asked you to show us who you are by creating an artistic representation of your class in a medium of your choice. Continue reading
Every week, our Week in Rap Shout Out Contest gives students an opportunity to win a shout out for their school in the next Week in Rap. Last week, we asked you to write about a season of your choice in the form of a tanka poem. In a tanka poem, the focus is not on rhyming, but on the number of syllables in each line. The changing seasons have long been a popular subject of this traditional Japanese poetry form. Continue reading
At Flocabulary, there’s one resource we could never live without: teachers. Our teachers are always inspiring us with the new and creative ways they implement Flocabulary in their classrooms. Here is a unique and super fun lesson plan that comes to us from Yvonne Maisel of Wake County Public Schools in NC.
Grade Level: 3-5
1. Initiate and facilitate discussion regarding ecosystems using Flocabulary’s “Ecosystems” song. Pause to discuss concepts such as food webs and animals that would live in various biomes
2. Review challenge questions and construct multiple possible answers, referring back to lyrics to validate answer choices.
3. Discuss biomes using http://worldwildlife.
4. View biomes PowerPoint.
5. Select which biome a fox would most like to live in (multiple answers).
6. View “What does the Fox Say?” to discuss what the fox says, who lives with a fox, what ecosystems are represented in the video, and what food chains are expressed.
7. Begin to draw ecosystems for the fox to inhabit.
Additional Material from Yvonne
We have previously made origami foxes because we are also considering how origami plays a role in STEM currently and how origami can/does translate into modern engineering principles. Here’s the site I created to synthesis science and origami.
Every week, our Week in Rap Shout Out Contest gives students an opportunity to win a shout out for their school in the next Week in Rap. Last week, we asked you to consider an issue facing your school, neighborhood, or town and create a multi-step action plan to solve the issue. Continue reading
Every week, our Week in Rap Shout Out Contest gives students an opportunity to win a shout out for their school in the next Week in Rap. Last week, we asked you to find a lesser-known fairy tale and retell it your way, in your own words.
The win this week goes to Park Hill Elementary School in Denver, CO. Mrs. Mills and Mrs. Fickes 5th grade class updated an old German fairy tale, bringing it into the modern classroom. Continue reading
Every week, our Week in Rap Shout Out Contest gives students an opportunity to win a shout out for their school in the next Week in Rap. Last week, we asked you to dream up a show. What would be the title? Who would be on the show? What would happen in an episode? Continue reading
Every week, our Week in Rap Shout Out Contest gives students an opportunity to win a shout out for their school in the next Week in Rap. Last week, we asked you to imagine your life in ten years and describe it to us. What would have happened in that decade of your life? How would things have changed? Continue reading
Every week, our Week in Rap Shout Out Contest gives students an opportunity to win a shout out for their school in the next Week in Rap. Last week, we asked you to draw a significant scene of your choosing from your country’s history. We received so many amazing drawings, ranging from the very beginnings of the United States all the way to some events happening right now.
Our winner this week is North Tech High School in St. Louis, Missouri. They illustrated everything from women’s suffrage to World War II to the election of Barack Obama. We wanted to showcase these two submissions in particular: an inspirational summary of the Civil Rights movement and a solemn depiction of the Trail of Tears.
Congratulations, North Tech High School!
We also loved the submissions from Grain Valley South Middle School in Grain Valley, Missouri. Here is one student’s illustration of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Finally, let’s take things back even further in history. Clayton of Thomas E. Weightman Middle School in Pasco County, Florida, drew this take on the Boston Tea Party.
Thank you to everyone who submitted drawings this week! Don’t forget to enter this Friday’s Week In Rap Shout-Out Contest for a chance to win a shout out next Friday.
Every week, our Week in Rap Shout Out Contest gives students an opportunity to win a shout out for their school in the next Week in Rap. Last week, we asked you to create a new word to fill a lexical gap in English. What do you wish we had the words to describe? Continue reading
Every week, our Week in Rap Shout Out Contest gives students an opportunity to win a shout out for their school in the next Week in Rap. Last week, we asked you to imagine what an alien would think visiting Earth for the first time. You submitted so many incredibly creative entries, coming up with all sorts of new world and backstories for your alien characters. Really amazing work! Continue reading
