Student Work

Our latest challenge for the Week in Rap Shout-Out Contest was to write about a news story we didn't cover, in a style similar to our infoboxes, and include your source. We received some interesting and thought-provoking stories, but only one could win the shout-out. Watch the video here. And the winner is... Bannockburn School, Illinois: Scientists say that the Grand Canyon is 6 million years old. Rebecca Flowers, a geologist at the University of Colorado, says something different. She says that it is over 70 million years old. Her research, which reconstructs the ancient landscape using a technique called…

It's time to change up your Flocab World History playlist! Check out this spectacular student-made Fertile Crescent video! Thanks to Todd LaVogue from West Palm Beach for letting us know about the great work happening in his classroom. UPDATE: Mr. LaVogue has done it again! His class has left the Fertile Crescent behind, and they can now "Walk like an Egyptian" in their latest video. Watch these inspiring students now: Want to see your class featured on the Hip-Hop Classroom? Click here for an easy-to-follow lesson plan and send your video our way.

When our first ever Year in Rap student contest with The New York Times Learning Network began, we didn't have a great sense of how many people would enter. Maybe 20, 40...we would have been thrilled with 100. So we were not only floored by the number of entries--432!--but duly impressed by the quality and creativity of the student raps. Thanks to the students for entering the contest, and thanks to the teachers who made this into a class project. While we were reading through the entries, it was clear that a few events from 2011 were very important to…