{"id":132123,"date":"2016-09-08T15:09:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T11:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=132123"},"modified":"2016-09-08T15:09:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T11:09:41","slug":"learning-history-through-fun-and-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2016\/09\/08\/learning-history-through-fun-and-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning history through fun and games!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grade 10 and 12 history students discovered the more creative side of learning this week. Grade 10s made songs and poems about political and intellectual movements of the 19th century (liberalism, nationalism, socialism, etc.). They even rapped or sang their pieces in class! &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2016\/09\/img_0063.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2016\/09\/img_0063.jpg\" title=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-132117 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2016\/09\/img_0063.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2016\/09\/img_0063-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2016\/09\/img_0063-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2016\/09\/img_0063-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2016\/09\/img_0063-510x382.jpg 510w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1000\/750;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a terrific brainstorming session, grade 12s began working hard on a board game about the USSR&#8217;s most intimidating dictator, Stalin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2016\/09\/img_0068.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2016\/09\/img_0068.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-132121 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2016\/09\/img_0068.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2016\/09\/img_0068-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2016\/09\/img_0068-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2016\/09\/img_0068-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2016\/09\/img_0068-510x382.jpg 510w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1000\/750;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBoth activities are fun, but also act as great ways to review content and skills before a more formal assessment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grade 10 and 12 history students discovered the more creative side of learning this week. Grade 10s made songs and poems about political and intellectual movements of the 19th century (liberalism, nationalism, socialism, etc.). They even rapped or sang their pieces in class! &nbsp; After a terrific brainstorming session, grade 12s began working hard on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,118,81,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grade-10","category-grade-12","category-secondary-history","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}