Podcasts

For this assignment, I chose to create a podcast about magnetism for a 4th grade class. It meets the benchmark...

Physical-Motion of Objects-Elementary 3
Describe patterns of interaction of magnetic materials with other magnetic and non-magnetic materials.
Key Concepts: Magnetic poles, magnetic attraction and repulsion.



I think that podcasting will definitely be a useful tool that many teachers will begin to use in their classrooms very soon. You can use them as a lecture. This benefits students because students are able to pause the lecture to take notes, or even watch the lecture multiple times to get a better understanding or find the stuff they missed hearing it the first time. This especially benefits students with disabilities and those who are absent.

Teachers can also use podcasts as a project for older students to create in groups or individually as a culminating assignment. One example would be for students to narrate a story they have written and find pictures to illustrate the story, or to put together an oral history of their family where they interview a family member and put family photos to illustrate it.