Teaching Current Events -The Week in Rap

Social Studies is one of the harder to integrate content areas. While browsing my fav blogs online, I found this cool website.  It is called The Week in Rap. The week in Rap is a music video that summarizes the major world events of the week. It is organized as a Rap video. A typical video is under 5 minutes.







This is a great alternative tool for teaching current events. It may be a great end of the week activity. Some ideas that come to mind are:


1. Link to this in a YackPack or Voice Thread discussion and ask students to respond to a question regarding it.

2. Have students develop a blog posting reflecting on these events using Ning, a wiki, Moodle, Google Doc, or traditional journal.

3. Have students create their own music video that discusses a global issue. Use this as an example.



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