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Understanding and comparing the platforms [jwplayer file=http://flocabulary.s3.amazonaws.com/media-jrev/political-parties-media.mp4 image=http://flocabulary.s3.amazonaws.com/images-jrev/political-parties-image.jpg]  Check out the lyrics and more for our Political Parties video.Just in time for the first debate of the 2012 presidential campaign, our Political Party video and lesson plan are a great way to introduce political platforms to your class. Complete with a graphic organizer to compare the Democratic and Republican parties, this lesson can also be used to review topics discussed in the debates. Political Parties Lesson Plan Objective: Students will compare the Republican and Democratic parties and identify the differences between the presidential candidates' platforms. 1. Have students watch Flocabulary's Political…

In Flocabulary's new video, two hungry characters learn about nouns in a chef's kitchen. Since nouns are the most delicious parts of speech (everything you eat is a noun!), your students may have food on their minds by the end of this song. Keep their focus with this writing activity about food and nouns.

A Fun Place Value Activity [jwplayer file=http://flocabulary.s3.amazonaws.com/media/place-value-media.mp4 image=http://flocabulary.s3.amazonaws.com/images/place-value-image.jpg]  Check out the lyrics and more for our Place Value video.  Recently, Flocabulary debuted a new video for the Place Value song. The characters in the video are having such a great time learning place value, so why shouldn't your students? Place value is often illustrated with blocks or charts. Set those aside for a moment and have your students actively involved in this activity. Place Value Lesson Plan Objective: Students will identify proper place value of numbers. 1. Have students watch Flocabulary's Place Value video and click on the info boxes in…

A lesson plan for language arts and social studies [jwplayer file=http://flocabulary.s3.amazonaws.com/media/presidential-election-process-media.mp4 image=http://flocabulary.s3.amazonaws.com/images/presidential-election-process-image.jpg]  Check out the lyrics and more for our presidential election process video.  Flocabulary recently released five new civics songs, including a presidential election video. The video includes footage from famous campaign ads. This lesson plan requires students to examine persuasive language in political campaign ads, and can be used in both a social studies and language arts class. Presidential Election Lesson Plan Objective: Students will analyze and identify modes of persuasion in campaign ads. 1. Have students watch Flocabulary's Presidential Election video and click on info boxes to learn more.…

A percentage and estimation lesson Featuring the iPhone 5   Current events have a place in every subject, even math. And our weekly current events video, The Week in Rap, isn't just useful for social studies. In fact, our report on the iPhone 5 from last week's Week in Rap video lends itself well to this mini math lesson. The New York Times reported on the swarm of Apple fans lined up to purchase the iPhone 5. Although Apple hasn't released any exact sales numbers for the iPhone 5 on launch day, analyst Gene Munster made an educated guess by counting…