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Grades K-2: Interactive livestream
Overview
Overview
Discover how the unique adaptations of African Penguins help them to survive in their ocean habitat. Students will waddle and swim like a penguin while observing our live penguin colony.
Schedule: November 13, 2020
Schedule: November 13, 2020
Pick the grade level and language that works for your student(s):
10 am PT, in English only
11 am PT, bilingual in English & Spanish
Registration is now closed, but don't fret! We'll be posting the recordings here within 48 hours of each live session.
What is a livestream?
What is a livestream?
A livestream is a 30-minute lesson, taught by a team of professional educators, and broadcast to multiple classes at the same time via YouTube. Kinesthetic movement is included during the lesson. Teachers receive a web link to the broadcast and get an optional activity to do before or after the program. These options are great for classes who may meet asynchronously because links of the recordings will be shared.
Extension activities for students
Extension activities for students
Teachers can find optional extension activities that are designed to be self-directed by the students or class group work, and may be built upon by the teacher if they desire. Activities range from 5-30 minutes long. Students | Estudiantes
NGSS connections
NGSS connections
This unit supports the following standards:
Crosscutting Concepts
Structure and Function
Related Performance Expectation
K-LS1-1 Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
Connection & technology information
Connection & technology information
A week before the session, registered parties will receive an email containing the unique YouTube destination for the live program. There are several ways to tune in:
Share the link with students, or parents in advance to bookmark the location. Individuals can watch the livestream in a browser on their own device.
A few minutes before the livestream begins, paste the unique YouTube link in the chat box of your virtual classroom. When students click the link, a browser will open on their device and they can tune in. (If you have your virtual classroom running at the same time, remember to mute everyone!)
If you are able to stream a Youtube video to your whole class on the virtual platform of your choice (for example, Zoom or Google Meet), then screen-sharing the YouTube Livestream to your class may also work. We highly recommend testing this out in advance, perhaps by streaming our Live Penguin Cam. Are the visuals choppy? How is the sound? If you experience any weirdness, it's best to have students watch the stream from their own device's browser, assuming district settings permit.
Pro-tip: You can make the livestream Full Screen by clicking the icon in the lower right of the video.
Rest assured that we'll be posting the recording within 48 hours of the livestream, so if technology issues or asynchronous schedules get in the way, you can still assign the video for viewing afterwards!
If you have questions or need us to resend the email, please contact us at distancelearning@calacademy.org.
Distance Learning is open to all K-8 students wherever they are set up to engage in remote learning this fall—be that in a classroom, at home, in a learning pod, or at a community learning hub. Interested in other livestreams for your class this year?
Visit the Distance Learning website.
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