Student Blogging Challenge – Week 4

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Let’s Join Globally

Over the past few months, there have been many international special days or events happening. How many have you taken part in?

Activity 1 – Free Rice

I have created a Free Rice group for our class. You can read about who Freerice are and what their goals are here. This website runs a quiz, and for every answer you get correct, they donate 10 grains of rice to the World Food Programme to help end hunger (if you’re interested, have a look at these hunger statistics – scary and sad).

I want to set you a challenge…. by the end of Week 11, I would like to see if we are able to donate 100 000 grains of rice to the World Food Programme by answering the quiz questions. You can complete as many quizzes as you like! If there are 20 questions in each quiz and 10 grains of rice are donated for each correct answer, how many quizzes do we need to do (assuming we get them all correct)? Get other people involved – ask your Mum, Dad, brothers, sisters, grandparents and friends to do the quiz (they’ll need to sign up and join WGS1008).

Select on Free Rice Group WGS1008 and Login on the left hand side. Your login is your LiteracyPro login (except for you, Blake – I’ll let you know yours in class) and your password is WGS1008. Once you have logged in, you’ll see that you are subscribed to WGS1008. Select Play from this box, so that all of the grains you accumulate will be tallied against our class group. You can choose from quizzes on English (Vocabulary and Grammar), Maths (Multiplication Tables) and Geography (World Landmarks, Identify Countries on a Map, World Capitals and Flags of the World).

Rice up against hunger

Make sure you log in to our class’s group!

Activity 3 – Visiting Blogs

Visit at least 5 blogs from countries other than Australia. Leave a comment on a post at each blog. Now write your own post including the comment you have left and linking to each post you commented on.

Activity 5 – Celebrations

Think of a special celebration in one country of the world. Find three images of the event. Under each image, give a clue as to the event. On the final line, write a bit more about the event for your visitors to read. Include a link to another website giving more information on the event. Remember to include attribution for each image and perhaps a question for your readers to answer.

Activity 7 – International Blogs

Add at least five international blogs to your blogroll or links ready for a game we will hold after Easter. Ask me if you’re not sure how to do this.

Activity 9 – Earth Hour / Climate Change – Class Activity

On Saturday, 28th March, is Earth Hour. Check out their video for the 2015 event:

What could you, our class, our school do to help with the climate change problem for more than the one hour on Saturday 28 March 2015? Post your suggestions as a comment to this post, and let’s see if we can make it happen. You might like to check out some ideas listed by Earth Hour or come up with your own.

 

We were mentioned on the Student Blogging Challenge website for the writing pieces some of you completed! Well done 🙂

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You might like to check out some of the students mentioned for their blogging last week (it’s towards the end of the post under the heading, ‘Previous week’s activities: Visit and leave quality comments’. These blogs could be used for Activities 3 and 7 this week.

Happy blogging!

Miss Andrews

 

12 thoughts on “Student Blogging Challenge – Week 4”

  1. Hi Ms Andrews,
    I have a question about activity 3. For the post, do we include all the blogs we visited on or just one we visited?
    Thanks, Jessica

    • Hi Jessica,
      Comment on five blogs and then write a post that includes all of the comments you have posted on other people’s blogs. For example,
      I visited Johnny’s blog and left the following comment on his post about gardens (link to post): Your comment. Do this for the five blogs.
      Does this make sense?
      Miss Andrews

  3. Hello everyone,
    My name is Ella I am in Mrs. Rombach’s class in Virginia. My favorite candy is Sour Patch Kids. Sammy is also in mrs. Rombach’s class and her favorite candy is Hershey Kisses.
    Come visit our blogs and let us know when you update more!
    Ella’s blog: https://spikingitbyella.edublogs.org
    Sammy’s blog: sammysballerinabrownies.edublogs.org

    • Hi Ella and Sammy,

      Thanks for letting us know what your favourite candy is! I haven’t heard of Sour Patch Kids and I haven’t tasted Hershey Kisses. I’ll check with my class tomorrow to see if they have heard about or tasted them.

      I’ll send my class over to your blogs.

      Miss Andrews

  4. Hi Miss Andrews,
    I was wondering if that a picture says ‘Public Domain’. Do we have to say Photo by: ——- licensed under Public domain or do we just say who the photo was by?
    Thanks!
    Jessica

    • Hi Rose,

      I’ve added the attribution for both. Given that there is no Creative Commons licence for the Storm Wallpaper, and given that it is free to download, I treated it as a Public Domain image (see my reply to Jess’s post). I’ve done the best I could, as there was very little information available.

      Miss Andrews

  6. I am so impressed with your interest in the FreeRice quizzes! So far, we have donated 26 530 grains of rice to the World Food Programme. You have well and truly exceeded the initial challenge of 10 000 grains by the end of the term. So, I have upped the challenge to 100 000 grains of rice by the end of the term 🙂 We’ll need to work out what that actually achieves (how many cups, how many people it could feed).
    Praban is leading the way with 6050 total grains, with Jordan and Jason T following behind with 4500 and 4260 respectively.
    Keep up the great work – this is a wonderful way that you can help support ending hunger in the world.
    Miss Andrews

  7. Hey Ms Andrews,

    Can you please unaprove one of my post, the one with the mexican celebration i need to edit it.
    That’s if you can Thanks
    -Genis

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