The document describes three classroom activities that teachers can do with students using Wikipedia: a knowledge battle, a link search and story-making activity, and an interesting fact hunt. In the knowledge battle, the teacher chooses a Wikipedia page for students to read. Students then write five questions about the page and try to stump their classmates. For the link search activity, the teacher chooses a starting and ending page with a link between them. Students take turns clicking links to try to get from the start to finish page in the fewest clicks, writing down their route. In the fact hunt, the teacher chooses a starting page. Students find an interesting fact on that page or ones linked from it, write it

1. Practical classroom activities
using Wikipedia

2. Practical classroom activities
using Wikipedia
Knowledge battle
Link search and story-making
Interesting fact hunt

3. Knowledge battle
TEACHER
Choose a page
for students to read
(I recommend one of the featured pages)
ENTS
STUD
Read the page
Write five questions •When did tea come to Japan from
China?
Bring them to school •When did matcha become popular?
Collate group •What is chasen in English?
questions •What do people wear at a tea
ceremony?
Battle! •How long is a tea ceremony?

4. Practical classroom activities
using Wikipedia
Knowledge battle
Link search and story-making
Interesting fact hunt

5. Link search and story-making
Penny Arcade: The gamification of education
http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/gamifying-education

6. Link search and story-making
TEACHER
Choose a start page
Choose an end page
(Make sure there is a link
between the two)
ENTS
STUD
Go to start page
Click on a link
REPEAT!
Find end page
Write down your route

14. ...but there is a quicker
route...
...and your students will find it!

18. Link search and story-making
Mario → Plumber → Economy →
House →Tent → Circus →
ENTS
STUD Clown
Using each of the links
write a (very) short story
Mario the plumber set out to
improve his countries economy. He
thought initially to save money by getting
rid of houses and replacing them with
tents. The people that had big houses
were given circuses instead. A real
boom time for professional clowns!

19. Practical classroom activities
using Wikipedia
Knowledge battle
Link search and story-making
Interesting fact hunt

20. Interesting fact hunt
Rives: Reinventing the encyclopedia game
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/rives_reinventing_the_encyclopedia_game.html

21. Interesting fact hunt
(Homework)
TEACHER
Choose a start page
TUD ENTS
S
Find an interesting fact
Write it down
(simplifying if necessary)
Click a link to a new
page

22. Interesting fact hunt
(Next Class)
S
STUDENT
Previous Facts of the Day
Read facts to group
• If male-only clown fish are brought together, the
Choose the best fact largest will become a female.
from the group • The center of a comet is one of the blackest things in
the universe. When light is shone on it, only 4% of light
reflects back.
Tell the class the best • When The Beatles performed on American television in
fact 1964, about half the population tuned in to watch.
• Pigs are very intelligent animals. They can be taught to
Choose the “Fact of dance, race, pull carts and sniff out land mines.
the Day”

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