{"id":54,"date":"2009-03-08T13:46:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T21:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geekynicki.edublogs.org\/?p=54"},"modified":"2009-03-08T13:46:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T21:46:36","slug":"red-nose-day-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Red Nose Day Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/rnd.png\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/rnd.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-55\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"RND\" src=\"http:\/\/geekynicki.edublogs.org\/files\/2009\/03\/rnd-150x150.png\" alt=\"Red Nose Day Logo 2009\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>It is always difficult trying to get my students to understand the importance of charity events such as Red Nose Day. Getting to see beyond the fact that it&#8217;s a day off from school uniform is usually quite a mission in itself!<\/p>\n<p>This year, however, I have found an excellent online game that should keep them busy and help them understand how difficult life is for families in Africa. The game is called &#8220;Cost of Life&#8221; and the aim is to keep a family alive and healthy for four years by sending some of the family out to work and some to school for an education so they can get better jobs. I played it myself (purely for testing purposes!) and only had one family member left by the end, and he was unhealthy!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here is the link to the game, enjoy and let me know what you think: <a href=\"http:\/\/ayiti.newzcrew.org\/globalkids\/\" target=\"_blank\">COST OF LIFE GAME<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is always difficult trying to get my students to understand the importance of charity events such as Red Nose Day. Getting to see beyond the fact that it&#8217;s a&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/?p=54\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,12],"tags":[22,33,34,53],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-for-fun","category-key-stage-3","category-teaching","tag-comic-relief","tag-fun","tag-game","tag-red-nose-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}