Podcasts are new to me. I was very surprised at that variety and the endless ways they can supplement the curriculum. I chose the Podcast titled, “Stuff You Missed in History Class.” Just in the last 10 days, half of the episodes would fit into my social studies curriculum. For example, our text does not have much on the Almo. In this week, they did an episode on How the Almo Worked. All podcasts will need to be listened to first to make sure the content is age appropriate for sixth grade, but so far the content was fine for my sixth graders. I also just finished a two month WWII study with my reading class. I found several back episodes I could use to supplement this unit. They even had an episode on Navajo Code Talkers. I have a student reading a novel about that topic right now.
It doesn’t move too fast that you could not pause to define or review vocab that is being used. The podcast also does a great job at building background knowledge of events leading up to the topic being discussed. Average podcasts are 14-15 min. long. This is something I will definitely use in my classroom.
Julee Ross
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There are lots of podcasts for content areas.
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