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Digital Citizenship Week is October 20–24!

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Engaging, informative, appropriate for middle/high school

Submitted 11 years ago

Community Review for Flocabulary

Heidi H.
Heidi H.
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My Take

Flocabulary is my go-to for engaging my students around current events in particular. The Week in Rap is a weekly current events-themed rap that focuses on the top stories in different areas of the news. On the main Flocabulary page, the Flocab team has written raps and provided supplementary lessons on Social Studies, Science, Math, Language Arts, and Vocabulary as well.

How I Use It

My students look forward to The Week in Rap every Friday. It encourages them to keep up with the news to predict what will be featured each week. Each news story mentioned in the rap has a link to a summary of the story and to an outside source for more information. There is an additional activity and printable lyrics each week.
The regular Flocabulary videos for Math, Science, Social Studies, Vocabulary, and Language Arts are equally as engaging. They, too, feature additional supplemental activities for the videos. All the resources on Flocabulary are guaranteed to hold your students' attention!
This is a paid website, but it's definitely worth it!

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Amanda D.
Amanda D. Tutor, Music Therapist
September 5, 2024

Wonderful!!

Not only is the resource amazing, but the customer service is great too! I accidentally tried accessing it with my personal email and ended up paying for the subscription when I already had it on my work email. The support representative was very kind and helped me sort this out! I wish that there weren't additional aspects of the website that you have to pay even more for after you've already paid for the subscription, but the basic subscription is definitely worth it!
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J. H.
J. H. Administrator
September 27, 2023

Misleading Information and Inflated Prices

Their "lite" tier of the product is trash and not even worth making a free account, let alone paying money for it's use. You can't do ANY of the things a good teacher would want to do with an activity with their students. To make matters worse, they put pressure on you as the teacher to push your school site administration to purchase a license for the entire school. Why should it be MY job to advertise and solicit for your product? How dare they lock the most useful features behind a paywall that individual teachers can have NO control over whatsoever.
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Anne G.
Anne G.
May 2, 2022

Fun and engaging ways for students to learn!

The large variety of lessons on the website are great for me to see what my students are interested in and for me to do my lesson plans around. I love the usage of hip-hop music since some students would only be able to experience this kind of music at home or on their own. Incorporating it into informative and exciting videos allows students to connect more with what they are learning. The website is also easy to use. I would not recommend relying solely on this website, but it is a great starting point that teachers can create activities or further lessons from.
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