Ten+Minute+Activities

These are websites with activities of merit that all could be done in ten minutes or less, done multiple times, and have many different types of activities built around them.
[|Free Rice] - this started as a vocabulary building site for the SAT but has added subject specific vocabulary. For each correct answer the students get, grains of rice are contributed to a third world nation. [|Free Poverty] - similar to the Free Rice site, it quizzes geography skills and contributes cups of water for each correct response. [|PicLits] - using the site's pictures, students can use the vocabulary given or their own to describe or caption the picture. Good for visual literacy and vocabulary. [|Word Count]- another vocabulary-building site which presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness. [|10 x 10] - Every hour, 10x10 collects, via RSS from the world's top news sources, the 100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale, and presents them as a single image, taken to encapsulate that moment in time.