Social Justice for Home

Students rush home, speed through their homework and glue themselves to the TV or computer. As an alternative to this we must harness the students interest and give them purposeful and meaningful work to do at home. I've discussed the power of gamification and in-depth Inquiry/Project based Learning, but a power purpose and compelling the students to impact the world can be the perfect engagement piece for students.

Resources like FreeRice are a fantastic way to teach students multiple lessons. Students are asked basic questions on math, geometry, language and others while at the same time earning 10 grains of rice for the World Food Organization for each correct multiple choice answer. 

Another fantastic website is Change.org that allows students to browse local and global petitions. Students can read up about issues that they care about and also write their own petitions for get their voice across.