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Cross-Curricular Podcasts
Podcast creation is an excellent way to engage students in learning and encourage cross-curricular connections. Here are some ideas for podcast creation in different subject areas:
ELA:
Storytelling: Students can create a podcast where they share their own original stories or retell a favorite folktale or fairytale in their own words.
Poetry: Students can perform and discuss poetry, including famous works or their own original poems.
Book club: Students can create a book club podcast where they discuss and review books they have read together as a class.
Math:
Problem-solving: Students can work collaboratively to solve math problems and explain their thinking in a podcast.
Data analysis: Students can analyze data sets and create a podcast discussing their findings and conclusions.
Real-world math: Students can research and discuss real-world examples of math in action, such as calculating the cost of a trip or measuring the ingredients for a recipe.
Social Studies:
Current events: Students can research and discuss current events in a particular region or country, including historical and cultural context.
Historical figures: Students can create a podcast discussing important historical figures, their contributions, and their impact on society.
Geography: Students can discuss the physical and cultural geography of a particular region or country, including its climate, terrain, and natural resources.
Science:
Experiments: Students can describe and discuss science experiments they have conducted in class, including their hypothesis, methods, and results.
Scientific discoveries: Students can research and discuss famous scientific discoveries and their impact on society.
Environmental issues: Students can discuss and analyze environmental issues, including their causes, effects, and possible solutions.
By creating podcasts, students can improve their communication skills, develop their research and critical thinking skills, and deepen their understanding of various subject areas. The cross-curricular connections between subjects can also help students see how different disciplines relate to one another in the real world.
ChatGPT
If you haven't tried this yet, YOU MUST! This is the equivalent of asking a teacher any question you want, only it is via text through a chat. Example: "Act as an expert teacher and tell me the steps required to teach K-12th grade students this question: (copy and paste your question here.) This works for anything and everything you can think of.
Computer Helpers
Forgot to charge the Chromebooks the night before? Have someone in your class be in charge of making sure the computers are ready to go the next day.
GoGuardian
This is the best program to eliminate online cheating, off-task students, and monitor student chromebook activity. It is not free and can be very pricey. Talk to your admin about this and see if its right for your school.
Teacher Hacks
Do you use Google Classroom (you should). This is an organization hack that will keep yourself, your students, and your parents in one place when its time to get work done. Super easy and super helpful.
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