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The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
As part of your study of the Age of Discovery, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment, you will assume the persona of a leading historical figure and bring them back to life to apply for a job in modern times!

French Pod 101
consists of daily podcast audio lessons, video lessons, French Word of the Day,etc.

EGHS Science By EGHS Science
Podcasts created by students enrolled in science classes at East Greenwich High School, located in East Greenwich Rhode Island

Teaching Factor: 25 PODCAST ASSIGNMENT & PROJECT IDEAS Podcasts are a great tool for learning and to showcase learning. With cloud based podcast platforms like Anchor and Spreaker, creating a podcast is simple and accessible to all. I have curated twenty five different podcast assignment and project ideas for students whether working remotely or in the classroom. Each one can be adapted per grade level and content area taught.
Listen Wise Blog: 8 Easy Ways to Get Podcasting in Your Classroom How can you bring podcasting into your classroom? Start with selecting a purpose that aligns with your curriculum. Will students create podcasts that inform, persuade, analyze, reflect, tell a story, or some combination? Once you have defined a task, you can select the appropriate production format for your students’ podcasts. Will podcasts be commentary by a single speaker? Will they be interviews or conversations? Will they be investigative reports involving multiple perspectives on an issue or topic?

50 Ideas for Student Created Podcasts
Non-Renewable Energy Sources Group Podcast
Sample assignment for groups of four students. One student is the moderator, a second student support the energy source, a third student opposes the energy source and the fourth student is group choice (political figure, expert, phone caller, etc.).

Inquiry Example: Immigration Story Podcast
Inquiry Example: Immigration Story Podcast
University of Chicago-Creative Assignments: Podcasting
Why Podcasts?
Podcasting can be a creative assignment that encourages students to engage with a topic aurally and orally in addition to simply via text. By engaging the senses more deeply, students gain a more comprehensive understanding of the topic.

LibGuide: Library Media Production Lab
Resources and examples of class podcasts.

Our Fourth Annual Student Podcast Contest
We invite middle and high schoolers to create an original podcast of five minutes or less that informs or entertains. Contest dates: April 8 to May 18.

NPR Student Podcast Challenge
We're inviting students around the country to create a podcast, then — with the help of a teacher — compete for a chance to win our grand prize and have your work appear on NPR.

Be a part of the NPR Student Podcast Challenge.
8 Student-Made Podcasts That Made Us Smile This year, NPR held its first Student Podcast Challenge — a podcast contest for students in grades 5 through 12. As we listened to the almost 6,000 entries, we smiled, laughed, and even cried. Students opened their lives to us with stories about their families, their schools and communities and their hopes for the future.

Teaching Podcasting: A Curriculum Guide for Educators
NPR has provided a breakdown of the Podcast planning and recording process and a series of sample lesson plans to ensure that students have the skills and background knowledge to start making a podcast.

NPR - A Podcasting Curriculum Guide for Educators
Whether you're leading your class or advising an extracurricular group, we hope this guide will make the podcasting process easier.
Here, you'll find a breakdown of the process and a series of sample lesson plans to ensure that students have the skills and background knowledge to start making a podcast.

A Studio At Your Fingertips: 5 Apps Teachers Are Using To Make Student Podcasts
A blueprint for planning storytelling projects
It’s important to begin any storytelling project with intention. Before you start making things, you should have a clear sense of who you’re trying to reach, what you’re trying to say and the scope of your project on all platforms.

This project blueprint is designed to help.

Project Blueprint
Overview
It’s important to begin any storytelling project with intention. Before you start making things, you should have a clear sense of who you’re trying to reach, what you’re trying to say and the scope of your project on all platforms.

Radio intros: 5 examples of success
Intros can make or break your story. They are hard to write well. It’s also hard to lay down laws about intros. Their success depends on the voice that delivers them and the nature of the story they serve. But we’ll try, based on a few examples below.
Project Audio: Teaching Students How to Produce Their Own Podcasts
This NYT feature of Project Audio walks students through the process of analyzing the techniques that make for good storytelling, interviewing and podcasting. The activities culminate in students producing their own original podcasts

Beyond the 5 W's: What should you ask before starting a story?
We all know the classic “5 W” questions journalists ask: Who, what, where, when, why (and bonus, “how”). But you should also consider the six additional questions listed below, which complement those fundamentals. They are informed by journalism but focused on storytelling.

Effective Interview Techniques
Developed by The Learning Network at The New York Times, this worksheet asks students to listen to podcast excerpts to better understand interview elements and techniques, and how best to utilize.
Elements and Techniques of Effective Storytelling
Developed by The Learning Network at The New York Times, this worksheet asks students to identify the elements and techniques of great storytelling.

Listen Wise Blog: Student Podcasting
Resources to Support Student Podcasting Projects

NEA- Teachers Redesign Social Studies With Popular Podcast
In an age of quarantines and remote learning, "The Missing Chapter" podcast gives two educators another tool to keep innovating.
What is Anchor and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks
Anchor is a podcast creation tool that is easy to use and works well for students and teachers
Podcasting for Educators
Most educators have skills sets that translate well to the podcasting world. Here’s how to get started with your podcast.
3 ways podcasting can strengthen core academic skills
K-12 Dive
Teacher's Guide to Student Podcasting
Are you a teacher looking to try something new that your students will get excited about? In this blog post, we share the Teacher’s Guide to Student Podcasting.