Podcasts are a great way to incorporate listening skills and primary sources in the classroom. Teaching with podcasts is a fun and engaging way to teach content and language, and grow listening skills. You can find short, interesting podcasts on hundreds of topics, themes, and collections. Regardless of your teaching content, you can parallel the lesson with current, relevant, real-world material.

Most podcasts easily connect with Google Classroom to make sharing with students easy for you!

Listenwise

Synth: Podcasting in Bytes

Use Synth to create a podcast for students to listen and receive information.

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Podcasts In The Classroom

Podcasts for Elementary Students

Tumble (science)
But Why? (various topics)
Storynory (language arts)
The Alien Adventures of Finn Caspian (language arts)
Eleanor Amplified (language arts)

Podcasts for Middle Students

The Past and the Curious (history)
Brains On (science)
KidNuz (current events)
Youth Radio (current events)
Welcome to Night Vale (language arts)

Podcasts for High Students

StarTalk: Neil DeGrasse Tyson(science)
Serial (criminal justice)
Radiolab (science)
StoryCorps (language arts)
Stuff You Missed in History Class (history)

Podcast Teaching Tip:

When you incorporate podcasts into the lesson, require two listens. First, play the audio for the entire class during synchronous time. During and/or after the audio: review concepts, vocabulary, and the questions students will be required to answer, you might stop the audio to clarify a point or take student questions. Then have students listen again, asynchronously, and answer comprehension and/or discussion questions. Encourage students to explore the resources accompanying the lesson to deepen their understanding. This strategy helps to build confidence in all students!

Slideshow - Static/Interactive/Live

Slidesmania

Ready-made slides for presentations, games, and organizing!

Slides Carnival

Free PPT templates & Google Slides themes for your presentations

Slides Go

SlidesGo has ready made slides and many categories to choose from!!

Slido

Slido extension creates polls and live Q&A in Slides!

Pear Deck

Add formative assessments and interactive activities to presentations, transforming devices from distractions into tools for classroom connection

NearPod

A teacher can create presentations that can contain Quiz's, Polls, Videos, Images, Drawing-Boards, Web Content and so on!!

Videos

QuickTime Player

Use QuickTime player on your computer to record yourself and/or the screen. Upload it to Google Classroom!

Screencastify

Record your screen with Screencastify! Get 15 minutes of recording for free! Also check out the extension!

Screencast-O-Matic

Record your screen with Screencast-O-Matic! Get 5 minutes of recording for free! Also check out the extension!

YouTube

Any topic, content, category! It's here!! Easily share your video on Google Classroom!

Loom

Loom is a screen recorder for Chrome, Mac, Windows, and iOS. It’s quick to install, easy to use, and free.

Google Meet

Create a virtual meeting with your students using Google Meet! You can see and hear your students, and can interact with them by sharing your screen.

View Pure Website

View Pure takes out the ads and extras on YouTube! Students only see the video you select, not the other distractions!

View Pure

Khan Academy

Khan Academy has a library of standards-aligned lessons covering K-12 math, grammar, science, history, AP® courses, SAT® preparation, more!

Digital Whiteboards

Ziteboard

Ziteboard is a zoomable online whiteboard with realtime collaboration for learning! Explain, sketch, teach anything.

Whiteboard.Fi

Whiteboard.fi is individual student whiteboards - you can see each one on your screen to watch students think and work!

Jamboard

A collaborative, digital whiteboard makes it easy to create without boundaries and share ideas in real time. Jamboard moves the whiteboard to the cloud.

Interactive Learning

iXL

Padlet

Use Padlet for collaboration, questions/answer, brainstorming, and anything else you need!!

Mentimeter

Get real-time input from remote teams and online students with live polls, quizzes, word clouds, Q&As and more

Socrative

Socrative is an efficient way to monitor and evaluate learning! Games, assessments, and more! Search or create your own!

GPB K-12 Remote Learning Plans

Padlet: Digital Curriculum and Resources divided by content! TONS of resources!!

More Ideas for Delivering Content From Teachers!!

When stations/centers are conducted in traditional classroom environments, small groups of students rotate around the room to different stations to complete activities and answer questions.

To translate this online, divide students into online groups and use shared Google docs or Google slides for the instructions and activity. Each group can complete the activity by completing the doc or slide as directed..

Use Google Classroom’s question feature to get the class to respond to readings and discussion prompts during distance learning. When each student comments, use clarifying questions to create a back-and-forth dialogue and also ask every student to respond to at least two of their peers’ comments to create a broader base of discussion.

Think-Pair-Share online! Students are given a prompt, broken into groups, and then placed into breakout rooms to discuss and record their answers on a shared Google doc to allow students to share their thinking in writing or read aloud. The Google doc helps keep students accountable. Once they return to the whole class, volunteers from each group can share their answers with everyone.

Use a document camera to share your writing with the students! For all the great reasons you use it in class, you can continue using it on a live Meet with students! Just click "Present" and share the window/tab that has the document camera footage. This would be a good way to work out math problems for online students to see each step. Art teachers can show the steps for a drawing in real time. English teachers can diagram sentences and discuss parts of speech or other grammar content with live online students.

Idea for FREE screencast: Join a Google Meet by yourself. Click "Present" to share the window with your slides. Click record and you can talk through your slides/lesson for your students. After you end the call, you will receive an email with the recorded Meet to share with your students on Google Classroom!

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