It raises an interesting topic though... recently I did Public Speaking with my grade 8 class. One students speech sounded quite plagiarized and upon a quick 'google search' the entire paragraph was found, word-for-word. We had the talk about why this was wrong (we had already had the talk before research started, but that is besides the point) the students new speech sounded more like the student and less like a poorly written article on google search.
It has been a while since I used Flocabulary regularily, but recently, I have been using the SMARTboards more and more and one of the things I like to do at the end of the day with Middle Schoolers before planners and clean-up is show a short video.
Of course, I prefer educational videos, but also videos they will enjoy. Luckily, Flocabulary is both of those things.
There are a number of education rap videos available for free, and many more for members. You can do a 14 day free trial to access these videos. Also, a few are available on youtube.
They do a week in rap video most weeks that talks about current events (though it is American based) but also has Socials Studies, Language Arts, Math and Science videos.
Check out their site, there are so many cool videos. My students love them and sing them throughout the day. They know their Parts of Speech, Elements of a Short Story and Prefixes very well now because they rap and sing the song from Flocabulary!
One of my favourites is 'Five Things: Elements of a Short Story':
