Lessons and Ideas

Review the Biggest Buzzwords of the Week! When you follow national and worldwide affairs, you get access to perfect basketball teams, controversial Supreme Court decisions, mind-reading devices, dyed animals and more. Each week, we’ll highlight the top buzzwords or terms that your students might not have known or even heard until now. All these words are featured in the most recent edition of The Week in Rap. And once students beef up their vocab, the news will make a lot more sense. THIS WEEK incomparable (adjective) -- without an equal Why it matters: The Baylor women's basketball team was the first in…

Here at the Flocab HQ, whenever we see an email from JoDee Luna--an innovative educator in Lancaster, California--we know it's going to be good. Luna is always dreaming up creative and fun ways to get her students involved, and she recently sent us this great lesson plan to go along with our Word Up vocabulary song, "How To Be An Entrepreneur." This lesson gives students experience writing application letters and interviewing, while also teaching 15 vocabulary words. See some student examples from Luna's class at the bottom. We liked one so much that we hung it up on our office…

Review the Biggest Buzzwords of the Week! When you follow national and worldwide affairs, you get access to presidential visits, statement-making representatives, cheating scandals, deep sea dives, box office hits and more. Each week, we’ll highlight the top buzzwords or terms that your students might not have known or even heard until now. All these words are featured in the most recent edition of The Week in Rap. And once students beef up their vocab, the news will make a lot more sense. THIS WEEK impoverished (adjective) -- reduced to poverty; poverty-stricken Why it matters: President Obama, on an official visit to…

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.

Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition to the New World that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire. Conquistadors were soldiers, explorers and adventurers at the service of the Spanish or Portuguese Empires. They sailed around the world conquering territories for their rulers, colonizing the New World and opening trade routes. Learn more about conquistadors in Flocabulary's song "Glory & Gold." Cortés was born to a family of lesser nobility. Before bringing down the Aztec Empire he made a name for himself in Cuba, where he received an encomienda (a system employed…