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We always like to hear how teachers are using Flocabulary to best meet the needs of their students. So when Tammy Seneca of West Baton Rouge Parish Schools sent us this awesome lesson to teach scientific classification, we couldn't wait to share it with our community. This lesson teaches students to classify life by Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and Species.

A Lesson Plan About Ancient Egypt: Students Create Their Own Rosetta Stone For thousands of years after the end of the ancient Egyptian civilization, people appreciated how pretty hieroglyphics were, but couldn't read them. All the information in the hieroglyphics was lost. This all changed in 1799, in a town called Rosetta, in Egypt, when archaeologists found the Rosetta stone. What is the Rosetta Stone? This smooth dark stone is almost four feet tall, and it has three different languages written on it. Because the same passage is written in Greek, demotic (another ancient language) and hieroglyphics, historians have been…

  A recent Harvard Business School study found that when people build their own products, they tend to love them more than if they just purchased them. The study called this the "IKEA Effect" after the ubiquitous chain's line of furniture that is (relatively) easy to assemble. If you put in the splinters, sweat and tears putting together your own dinky IKEA table, you'll end up thinking that it is worth more than it really is. In other words: People care more about stuff they create. In the world of education, these findings shouldn't come as a surprise. The "IKEA…

When you recognize a word's prefix, you can make a better guess at the meaning of a new word. Or as our new prefix video says, "Prefixes...It's like a remix, it changes things." By the end of this prefix lesson plan, students will be able to recognize the meanings of common prefixes, use the prefixes to determine meanings of words, and then play a prefixes game where they invent new words using prefixes.