Industrial Revolution Lesson Plan
  • November 30, 2011

Industrial Revolution Lesson Plan

[jwplayer file=http://flocabulary.s3.amazonaws.com/media-jrev/industrial-revolution-media.mp4 image=http://flocabulary.s3.amazonaws.com/images-jrev/industrial-revolution-image.jpg] Check out the lyrics and more. Every aspect of life changed during the Industrial Revolution, from food to work to housing to what people did in their free time. Innovative inventions spurred many of these changes. This lesson plan will challenge students to decide which invention changed the world the most. Industrial Revolution Lesson Plan Lesson Objective: Think critically about different Industrial Revolution inventions and support an opinion about which invention is most influential. Materials: Industrial Revolution video, Debate Worksheet, computer access for research, student notebook or document to take notes. 1. Play the free Flocabulary video,…

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Edublog Award Nominations 2011
  • November 29, 2011

Edublog Award Nominations 2011

This past year, we jumped full force into the world of educational blogging, Twittering and PLN-ing. (Last year we didn't even know what PLN meant!) And the amazing stories of teacher collaboration and brainstorming have delighted us at every turn. Since we're new to this world in many ways, we'd like to take this opportunity to nominate those of you out there who have made us most welcome over the past year in the online education community. We can't wait to get to know more of you! For Best individual Blog: Cybrary Man's Educational Websites We'd say this is less…

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The US President Who Made Thanksgiving A National Holiday…
  • November 23, 2011

The US President Who Made Thanksgiving a National Holiday…

...and the other president you can thank for the crazy shopping afterward. Most of us associate Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, but Turkey Day wasn't official until good old Honest Abe came along. Abraham Lincoln is the US president who made Thanksgiving a national holiday, and he did it in the midst of the Civil War. He proclaimed the first official national "day of thanks" on November 26, 1863. From then on, Thanksgiving was observed on the last Thursday of each November. Then in 1939, in the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt had an idea.…

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Distance Of Jupiter From Earth
  • November 23, 2011

Distance of Jupiter from Earth

Have you ever wanted to travel to another planet? We certainly do. And when we were doing research for our solar system rap video, "Confessions of a Planet," we thought it would be a good excuse to figure out just how much gas we might need to reach Jupiter. (When we go into space, we go big.) So what is the distance of Jupiter from Earth? It turns out that the answer is complicated. In our heliocentric universe, everyone can tell you how far the planets are from the sun. The number varies throughout the year due to our elliptical…

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Math Multiplication Sheet? Try A Song, Too.
  • November 23, 2011

Math multiplication sheet? Try a song, too.

Many of you know Flocabulary for the word that rhymes with (and inspired) our company name. But did you know that we have a full math curriculum, too? This month, we're featuring our multiplication math song "Gimme Six" for free! Listen in to get multiplying now, and then complete our math multiplication sheet afterward to review. If you like "Gimme Six," sign up for a free trial to get access to our entire math curriculum. We've got dozens of math songs and exercises to amp up your addition, subtraction, multiplication and division lessons.

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