Description
Free Rice is a free, simple yet addictive, level-based learning game on the web. The main feature is a vocabulary quiz but there are also subject-specific quizzes under the “Subjects” heading for Art, Chemistry, Geography, Math, foreign-language learning, and grammar. For every question successfully answered, the website donates 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.
Description
This exercise is a fun way to teach students sentence organization in a paragraph, particularly understanding the natural order that transition words provide. Once you understand what I’ve done, you can just create your own paragraphs, of course—but be aware that students may find perfectly logical ways to order the paragraph beyond what you predicted! To teach this exercise in its ideal form so that its initial focus is on procedural thinking, combine it with a map-like game (Tic-tac-toe, a maze, war game map, etc.) as a preface (see example elsewhere or chat with Joe).
Note: This is part of my “Following a Space” series of exercises.
In statistics class, hypothesis testing is traditionally one of the most difficult units, filled with new vocabulary and difficult concepts. To alleviate tension introducing this topic, the author brings in bingo cards, with the vocabulary words randomized on it. Click on the picture to see a sample card.
Educators coming together to explore how the principles of games promote learning
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