The Gaston County Schools Pinnacle Leaders Network
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Day 3: Discover Discovery Education
We investigated new ways to use Discovery Education today and you even got some time to start working on a lesson you can use with your students once school starts back. In the comments section below, share with each other what your lesson idea is.
I'm seeing several possibilities. There are some grammar videos I can access that were in a SMART lesson I downloaded earlier this year. I may work on some short webquests to use as culminating or introductory activities for Night and the Iliad.
I have always used Discovery videos, but not much more than just watching them. I see many opportunities to use Discovery Education as a tool in differentiating instruction.
I didn't realize you could do so much with Discovery Education! All I really knew about was using videos from United Streaming. I liked the assignment that Teresa modeled with us--I think we can get our students to use some higher level thinking skills with assignments like this! I'd like to create assignments which require students to watch videos and respond to a writing prompt which connects the video to the reading. For example, when the class is studying Farewell to Manzanar, I could have students watch a video about Japanese American internment camps during World War II and have them identify any bias in the video and its effect on the viewer.
I have always been a big fan of pulling videos from Discovery videos to add to my lessons or units. I never knew I could make a lesson/unit to go with the videos I have been showing. Today I started working on my unit lesson for Animals using Discovery and I think my student's will really enjoy using it.
I love using Discovery Education! I have already done a few lessons with my students and they really enjoyed it. I think this year I am going to do a lesson to go with our S.S. Unit "Communities of Long Ago". I can attach a video on the assignment about life in pioneer days and have the students respond by writing a diary entry as a pioneer child.
I love Discovery Magic School Bus Videos to use with my first graders for science. I never realized you could edit the videos and put them into a voice thread. I would use this with my students and have them summarize key parts!
I LOVE all the ways that you can use Discovery Education...I had no idea some of those features were there! I think that I would able to integrate with the fifth grade science. *plants and animals-investigate different consumers and producers *landforms-I really liked the example from this morning *weather *motion
I was not even close to aware of what all Discovery Education has to offer. I was able to find some information on recycling and that's what I want to do my project on. I'm thinking I want to create a unit on recycling and reusing with the possibility of starting a recycling club. We don't currently recycle at all at my school and it would be a useful project for my students to be involved in.
I too have always used used United Streaming especially for science. I love the Units you introduced today. I have converted the handouts and even the quizzes into Smart documents.
I am using Discovery Ed for my Unit I am preparing. My students will be working on the animal habitats unit from the science kit and I am using Discovery Ed for a PBL activity for follow-up.
I want to set up lessons like the one we practiced today. I got very excited at the idea of using it to study different types of communities. I could see how students could be grouped by communities: cities, farms, etc and could research the various areas and create some type of product to convince others to come visit their community.
I continue to use the discovery videos and I also use the lesson plans. I plan on using the videos on speeches as a way to introduce great men and women.
I loved seeing all of the wonderful things on Discovery Education that I wasn't aware of. I look forward to using it in class this year, however, I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet. Last year my big focus was on science, specifically sound. I think that I might stick with science again this year but since it will be first quarter material, animal life cycles (frogs and toads) would work out really well. That could include our reading story (Days with Frog and Toad) as well as non-fiction reading, science concepts (frogs and toads)and social studies (geography). Once I really start looking around, I think that I'll be able to come up with some really good ideas.
I never knew that Discovery Education had things other than videos. I can remember in high school my teacher putting on a video with this monotone man speaking about solving equations, and I about fell asleep every time. So, I had never sat and played with Discovery Education, but after today there are many things that I can use. I found some projects through STEM to use in my classroom about real world problems. Hopefully this will bring math alive to my students!
I didn't realize the potential that Discovery Education has in the classroom! It is so much more than videos! I made my lesson using a 50 minute video with questions that I usually use in class on Otiz the Iceman. This is an excellent tool to show the students prehistory and history; however, with this tool, I can now save 50 minutes of class time to do something else. They can now have the responsibility of completing the task at home and we can discuss it the next day as our opening activity.
I saw a video on Discovery Education about the New York Giants Stadium and estimating how much food, drink, toilet paper, etc they need for each game. It talks about how they consider weather conditions, the team they are playing, how well they've been playing, etc. I want to build an assignment where students watch this video and then are given another scenario where they have to estimate how much product or something based on certain data/information.
My lesson idea is to integrate health/cooking, math, reading, and science. Parts of the lesson would include watching a short cooking demonstration, finding a recipe online, converting the ingredient measurements to metric, doubling/cutting in half the ingredients, and anything else that comes to mind. I hope to create a real-world scenario and problem that students can solve. I also would like students to analyze the nutritional value of the recipe. At the end I would love students to create a product. My idea is to have students prepare the recipe, and record the process along the way and create a final product using a web 2.0 tool such as glogster, voicethread, or mixbook (maybe something new too).
I knew that there was a lot more to Discovery Education other than videos, but I had no idea how to even access half of the things that we learned today. I am going to be doing a fiction vs. nonfiction unit this year and there are several clips on Discovery Education on what each is and gives examples of each. There are also the great books that could be used as examples. I will use these in my lesson and then at the end of the unit have students create a final product to see if they can differentiate between fiction and nonfiction.
I'm seeing several possibilities. There are some grammar videos I can access that were in a SMART lesson I downloaded earlier this year. I may work on some short webquests to use as culminating or introductory activities for Night and the Iliad.
ReplyDeleteI have always used Discovery videos, but not much more than just watching them. I see many opportunities to use Discovery Education as a tool in differentiating instruction.
ReplyDeleteI didn't realize you could do so much with Discovery Education! All I really knew about was using videos from United Streaming. I liked the assignment that Teresa modeled with us--I think we can get our students to use some higher level thinking skills with assignments like this! I'd like to create assignments which require students to watch videos and respond to a writing prompt which connects the video to the reading. For example, when the class is studying Farewell to Manzanar, I could have students watch a video about Japanese American internment camps during World War II and have them identify any bias in the video and its effect on the viewer.
ReplyDeleteI have always been a big fan of pulling videos from Discovery videos to add to my lessons or units. I never knew I could make a lesson/unit to go with the videos I have been showing. Today I started working on my unit lesson for Animals using Discovery and I think my student's will really enjoy using it.
ReplyDeleteI love using Discovery Education! I have already done a few lessons with my students and they really enjoyed it. I think this year I am going to do a lesson to go with our S.S. Unit "Communities of Long Ago". I can attach a video on the assignment about life in pioneer days and have the students respond by writing a diary entry as a pioneer child.
ReplyDeleteI love Discovery Magic School Bus Videos to use with my first graders for science. I never realized you could edit the videos and put them into a voice thread. I would use this with my students and have them summarize key parts!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE all the ways that you can use Discovery Education...I had no idea some of those features were there!
ReplyDeleteI think that I would able to integrate with the fifth grade science.
*plants and animals-investigate different consumers and producers
*landforms-I really liked the example from this morning
*weather
*motion
I was not even close to aware of what all Discovery Education has to offer. I was able to find some information on recycling and that's what I want to do my project on. I'm thinking I want to create a unit on recycling and reusing with the possibility of starting a recycling club. We don't currently recycle at all at my school and it would be a useful project for my students to be involved in.
ReplyDeleteI too have always used used United Streaming especially for science. I love the Units you introduced today. I have converted the handouts and even the quizzes into Smart documents.
ReplyDeleteI am using Discovery Ed for my Unit I am preparing. My students will be working on the animal habitats unit from the science kit and I am using Discovery Ed for a PBL activity for follow-up.
ReplyDeleteI want to set up lessons like the one we practiced today. I got very excited at the idea of using it to study different types of communities. I could see how students could be grouped by communities: cities, farms, etc and could research the various areas and create some type of product to convince others to come visit their community.
ReplyDeleteI continue to use the discovery videos and I also use the lesson plans. I plan on using the videos on speeches as a way to introduce great men and women.
ReplyDeleteI loved seeing all of the wonderful things on Discovery Education that I wasn't aware of. I look forward to using it in class this year, however, I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet. Last year my big focus was on science, specifically sound. I think that I might stick with science again this year but since it will be first quarter material, animal life cycles (frogs and toads) would work out really well. That could include our reading story (Days with Frog and Toad) as well as non-fiction reading, science concepts (frogs and toads)and social studies (geography). Once I really start looking around, I think that I'll be able to come up with some really good ideas.
ReplyDeleteI never knew that Discovery Education had things other than videos. I can remember in high school my teacher putting on a video with this monotone man speaking about solving equations, and I about fell asleep every time. So, I had never sat and played with Discovery Education, but after today there are many things that I can use. I found some projects through STEM to use in my classroom about real world problems. Hopefully this will bring math alive to my students!
ReplyDeleteI didn't realize the potential that Discovery Education has in the classroom! It is so much more than videos! I made my lesson using a 50 minute video with questions that I usually use in class on Otiz the Iceman. This is an excellent tool to show the students prehistory and history; however, with this tool, I can now save 50 minutes of class time to do something else. They can now have the responsibility of completing the task at home and we can discuss it the next day as our opening activity.
ReplyDeleteI saw a video on Discovery Education about the New York Giants Stadium and estimating how much food, drink, toilet paper, etc they need for each game. It talks about how they consider weather conditions, the team they are playing, how well they've been playing, etc. I want to build an assignment where students watch this video and then are given another scenario where they have to estimate how much product or something based on certain data/information.
ReplyDeleteMy lesson idea is to integrate health/cooking, math, reading, and science. Parts of the lesson would include watching a short cooking demonstration, finding a recipe online, converting the ingredient measurements to metric, doubling/cutting in half the ingredients, and anything else that comes to mind. I hope to create a real-world scenario and problem that students can solve. I also would like students to analyze the nutritional value of the recipe. At the end I would love students to create a product. My idea is to have students prepare the recipe, and record the process along the way and create a final product using a web 2.0 tool such as glogster, voicethread, or mixbook (maybe something new too).
ReplyDeleteI knew that there was a lot more to Discovery Education other than videos, but I had no idea how to even access half of the things that we learned today. I am going to be doing a fiction vs. nonfiction unit this year and there are several clips on Discovery Education on what each is and gives examples of each. There are also the great books that could be used as examples. I will use these in my lesson and then at the end of the unit have students create a final product to see if they can differentiate between fiction and nonfiction.
ReplyDelete