Lesson+Ideas

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General

 * Here is a nice article about Robert Newara's use of podcasting with his transition team math classes: [[file:NewaraPodcasts.pdf]]

Social Studies
I had my students do a wiki page on different parts of the brain and use those pages to color their own blank brain pictures I had my students create a wikispace to post their "radio" podcasts that interviewed Plato, Aristotle and Socrates.

Science
The [|hippocampus.org] website has tons of videos that would be great to demonstrate and summarize difficult concepts in biology. You can select the text book you use in class; so it makes it easy to align the concepts on the website with your instruction. Check out the vides under DNA Trascription and Translation. There are some nice analogy videos.

English
Colonial Literature - Poetry - //Upon the Burning of Our House// by Anne Bradstreet - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7bEKzp4Bpc This is a website that is a short video of the poem...it's a good activator/summarizer for this poem...:)

"Students choose various lines from the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird and act them out. The rest of the class has to guess who the character is. The presenter then gets to ask specific questions about the character and the significance of the line that they chose to read aloud. "