Tech Tuesday
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TED-Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing
TED-Ed is a wonderful resource for your classroom. It is a site (ed.ted.com )that has short content related videos, pre-made questions, and even a "Dig Deeper" section so your students can keep learning after the lesson is over. You just simply type in the topic or skill you are teaching and related videos will appear for you. This site even offers you the opportunity to create your own lessons when you are ready. Whether you are just trying to grab the attention of your students at the beginning of a lesson with a video...or you are flipping your classroom...TED-Ed is a great find!
Click on the link below to explore this great site....
Click on LESSONS to find great lessons that are already made....click on CREATE a LESSON to make your own....or you can even take a tour of the site by clicking at the bottom
TED-Ed provides filters to save you planning time...
You can filter content area, age range, and even video duration time.
Below is an example of some fabulous resources I found when I searched for Elementary Math...
How about beginning a geometry lesson with a video about Sponge Bob's house?
Why not teach elapsed time through Michael Jordan's hang time?
Who knew we could teach a math lesson with an old episode of I Love Lucy?
SCIENCE TEACHERS...ELA TEACHERS...check this out!
Here's an idea...Three Facts and a Fib
- List 4 statements on the board (or PowerPoint slide) - three true statements and one false. Have your students predict which is the "Fib"
- Show the video and have students listen to see if their predictions were correct.
- Discuss as a class.
- Have students change the FIB to make it a FACT based on information in the video.
Use the same video and take it a step further...to teach INFERRING, EXPLICIT INFORMATION, and EVIDENCE from the TEXT by adding a graphic organizer
- Give students the graphic organizer and have them fill in the INFERENCES section as they watch the video without sound.
- Show the video again...with the sound...and have students complete the EXPLICIT INFORMATION section with information they hear in the video.
This is a hard concept to teach to students...but volume vs. silence could make the concept clearer to them.
When you click on the THINK section...you will find comprehension questions about the video
Are you ready to create your own lesson? Click below to find out how...
3 Minute Teaching With Tech Tutorial - Create a Flipped Video Lesson with TedEd