30? Creative Ways to Use Discovery Education
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DE Content: Visual Boards Clip Art Videos Video segments Images
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Green Screen with ★ iMovie Integration Idea: Students can download images and/or editable video segments from DE and use them for the basis of a children’s story, public service announcement, movie trailer, news broadcast, etc... JayCut is a free web- based platform.
Other Ideas Have students... Invent historical scenarios and have students “slide” on screen with the historical figure. Report on a breaking news story in front of the White House. Report live from a shark tank. ★ All images are from Discovery Education are copyright friendly.
To help students who are hearing impaired To help ELL students To reach multiple modalities To help struggling readers To emphasize a grammar or vocabulary lesson To use in combination with a writing exercise To reinforce a concept Closed Captioning
Photo Projects Animoto Blabberize
Comic Life
Finish the Story Download a series of relevant images Images can be thematic or randomly connected to the unit of study Develop a digital story in PowerPoint, iMovie, PhotoStory 3, Windows Movie Maker or other applicable web 2.0 tool with one image per slide Create a title for the story and add relevant music Do not add text or voice-over narration to the story Have cooperative learning groups view the digital stories; developing a storyline that considers the title, and connects the images to class content One student starts the story, another adds to the story at the next image, a third adds to the story at the next image, and the last finishes the story based on the last image
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DE Content: Audio Audio: readings, literature, speeches, etc. Songs Sound effects
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One Take Video /DEN/drlodgevideochallenge.cfm
Podcasts Use audacity or the garageband app to record the class singing the DE songs.
Digital Storytelling Use sites/apps like ibooks author, kizoa, and simplebooklet Embed sound effects in the stories
DE Content: Reading Encyclopedia Events Learning guides Passages Primary Source Documents
Search for meaning...build literacy and analysis skills with wordle.net
wordsift.com another tool for visualizing text Bonus: Try TagCrowd for embeddable word clouds. Add them to your wiki, blog, or Discovery Education Builder tools!
DE Content: Teaching Activities Builders Content collections Graphic organizers Handouts Lesson plans Presentations Resources Assessments Quizes Writing prompts
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