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Newcastle

For Teachers 6th - 7th
In this language arts worksheet, students listen to a podcast. They listen for words that mean the same as 6 words or phrases. Students answer 7 comprehension questions. A cloze activity of the article is included for students.
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The Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, students listen to a podcast about Trafalgar Square in London. They fill in the gaps on a cloze activity. Students match 7 adjectives with their subjects. They answer 8 comprehension questions.
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Pod Cards: The White House, Washington D.C.

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this language arts worksheet, students listen to a podcast of information about the White House. Students fill in missing words as they listen. Students use a transcript to answer 15 questions about what they've heard and read.
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We're Going on an Animal Safari!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students take viewers on an animal safari. In this technology activity, students research animals one would see on an African safari. Students collaborate to create a storyboard and use Flip Video Cameras to create a virtual safari. The...
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Exploring Climate Change

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars explore the concept of climate change. In this climate change lesson, students break up into groups and research climate change and create a Blog to present their findings.  Young scholars then break into 2 groups,...
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Enhancing Literacy with Podcasting

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils write stories, print hard copies, and use the GarageBand program to add music and record the narrations. A handout to download, of instructions is included in this early-elementary lesson.
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Healthy Tips Podcast

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a health-based podcast for peers using prior knowledge, internet research, and KWL charts. This lesson is adaptable for different health topics and age levels.
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Voice of History

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
Way before the digital age radio was the medium of popular culture. After listening to excerpts from radio programs (easily available on the Internet), participants return to the radio age by creating a two-minute sketch based on a...
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Facing History and Ourselves

Taking Ownership of the Law

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The work of building and maintaining a democracy is, in the words of Justice William Hastie, "never finished." To better understand what Hastie sees as an ongoing building process, class members listen to a seven-minute podcast about two...
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Podcasting Gone Digital

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students prepare a podcast activity for their lesson on tall tales. In this tall tales and technology lesson, students work in groups to prepare sentences about tall tale characters. Students make drawings for the information, take...
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Poetic Podcasting

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Pupils create poetry and post them in a Podcast. In this poetry activity, students create poetry based on different subject ares and post them as a Podcast.
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Podcasting: Sharing Your Ideas About Featured Topics and Issues

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars investigate podcasting. They read an article related to podcasting. Students access a podcast and using various features such as pausing, rewinding, and fast-forwarding. They work in small groups to produce an original...
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Facing History and Ourselves

Citizen Power Makes Democracy Work

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Eric Liu's formula "power plus character equals citizenship" and his three strategies to making change happen model for high schoolers how to develop citizen power, how to get involved and participate to make democracy work. Class...
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Literature and Imagination Make Democracy Work

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The final instructional activity in the "What Makes Democracy Work?" series examines the connections between imagination, literature, and democracy. Class members listen to a podcast, read an excerpt from Azar Nafisi's, The Republic of...
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Teaching Tolerance

The Privacy Paradox

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
What's more important: privacy or convenience? Scholars consider the question as they take a digital privacy quiz and read a transcript of an NPR podcast about the privacy paradox. As a culminating activity, pupils develop a list of five...
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Teaching Tolerance

Advertising on the Internet

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Believe it or not, everyone plays a role in Internet advertising. Scholars explore the topic with a podcast about Internet advertising and personal identity. Next, partners plan and produce their own public service announcements to...
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Nemours KidsHealth

Concussions: Grades 6-8

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Teach middle schoolers to learn how to prevent concussions, recognize the symptoms of a concussion, and what they should do in case of a concussion. After reading articles that provide background information, groups create factsheets...
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Health Smart Virginia

Socially Conscious Social Networking

For Teachers 8th
A powerful, award-winning video launches a lesson about socially conscious social networking. After watching the video and engaging in a full class discussion, individuals share their ideas about healthy social networking in a podcast or...
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Anti-Defamation League

‘Migrant Caravan’ and the People Seeking Asylum

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The controversies surrounding migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. have recently been a hot topic. To understand some of the issues involved, young scholars investigate the Migrant Caravans of 2018. A 10-page packet, including photos, a...
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Technology

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students create podcasts. In this technology lesson, students familiarize themselves with podcasts and develop their own podcast about a current event.
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Where in the World?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners create global geography podcasts by choosing a location, researching that location, and describing that location verbally. Other schools/students can then guess what the Podcast is describing via email.
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Casting a Wide Net

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils investigate topics that would be suitable for classroom podcasts. They read an online article, write and produce a podcast.
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Giving a Voice to Literature

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore podcast design.  In this literacy and technology lesson, students read a novel during book club and design a promotional podcast to recommend the book to their peers.  Necessary technology expertise and an explanation of...
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Activating Students Through Storytelling

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders produce a podcast of a elements of a Chinese folk tale. In this Chinese folk tale and podcasting lesson, 4th graders watch as the teacher performs Peach Blossom Spring: A Chinese folk tale. They decide on who will stay in...

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