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Practical classroom activities using Wikipedia
Practical classroom activities using Wikipedia
Knowledge battle
Link search and story-making
Interesting fact hunt
Choose a page
for students to read
Read the page
TEACHER
STUDENTS
(I recommend one of the featured pages)
Write five questions
Bring them to schoolCollate group
questionsBattle!
•When did tea come to Japan from China? •When did matcha become popular?•What is chasen in English?•What do people wear at a tea ceremony?•How long is a tea ceremony?
Knowledge battle
Knowledge battle
Practical classroom activities using Wikipedia
Link search and story-making
Interesting fact hunt
Penny Arcade: The gamification of education
http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/gamifying-education
Link search and story-making
Choose a start page
Choose an end page
Go to start page
TEACHER
STUDENTS
(Make sure there is a link between the two)
Click on a link
REPEAT!
Find end pageWrite down your route
Link search and story-making
...but there is a quicker route...
...and your students will find it!
Mario → Plumber → Economy → House →Tent → Circus →
ClownUsing each of the links
STUDENTS
Mario the plumber set out to improve his countries economy. He thought initially to save money by getting rid of houses and replacing them with tents. The people that had big houses were given circuses instead. A real boom time for professional clowns!
write a (very) short story
Link search and story-making
Practical classroom activities using Wikipedia
Knowledge battle
Link search and story-making
Interesting fact hunt
Rives: Reinventing the encyclopedia game
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/rives_reinventing_the_encyclopedia_game.html
Interesting fact hunt
Choose a start page
Find an interesting fact
Write it down(simplifying if necessary)
Click a link to a new page
Interesting fact hunt (Homework)
TEACHER
STUDENTS
STUDENTS
Read facts to group
Choose the best fact from the group
Tell the class the best fact
Interesting fact hunt (Next Class)
Choose the “Fact of the Day”
Previous Facts of the Day
• If male-only clown fish are brought together, the largest will become a female.
• The center of a comet is one of the blackest things in the universe. When light is shone on it, only 4% of light reflects back.
•When The Beatles performed on American television in 1964, about half the population tuned in to watch.
• Pigs are very intelligent animals. They can be taught to dance, race, pull carts and sniff out land mines.
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