50 Ways to Use Discovery Education streaming com/scienceinaction Brad Fountain Discovery Education

Build Interest with Video Segments 1

Have students do a “Pair Share” to discuss a video segment they viewed to summarize the content Have students create a new narration for a video segment Use sound effects to create a podcasts of a student created story Turn OFF the sound to a video and have students narrate How do you feel these examples could support a literate learner?

Listen Up 2

DE streaming Audio - Song DE Streaming has close to 466 elementary school songs on the site. To find them click inside the search box, choose songs within the Media box, and click on the “Search” button Download and save the song onto your PC and insert it into your PowerPoint Then add in DE streaming Images or create your own and add! Want to see an example?example?

Songs that help Teach Learning Our Long Vowels – Long vowels say their names.© 2005 Twin Sisters Music Makes it Memorable: Gonna Name Our States - This song lists the names of the states in alphabetical order, providing an effective follow-up lesson after children have learned the names of the states. Math with Mar: Certain, Probable, Impossible - This song helps children develop their powers of abstract thinking by giving examples of situations that are certain, probable, and impossible. For example, a dog barking is certain, a dog liking bones is probable, and a dog flying is impossible. It’s Called Chemistry – Chemists are curious, so they investigate things, like why water evaporates or why chocolate melts. Rhyming Word Rule (02:30) Rhyming words stay the same at the end. You only change the beginning. © 2005 Twin Sisters The Alphabet Swing (01:21) Sing the letters of the alphabet. 2

Audio Animal: Barn Yard : Indoor Barn Ambience: Pigs Sheep Chickens Dog Rooster. Sound Ideas, Sound Effect. 24 April

Speech + Wordsift

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Get the picture? 4

Great White Shark Opens Mouth One of 21,000 Images

What if this shark could talk?

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Nonlinear Presentations 5

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How did we do it?

Here are the steps 1.Log into Discovery Education streaming ( 2.Search for an image(s) by keyword – You have your choice of 20,800! 3.Select an image Cells

Here are the steps 4.Download that image and place it into PowerPoint (tool bar, Insert>Picture>From File…) into slide # 1 5.Now you have that you have your main picture. Insert a Text Box and call it _____ 6.Copy slide #1 and paste into PPT as slide #2 7.Remove text box 8.Embed movie (tool bar, Insert>Movies and Sounds>Movie from File)

Here are the steps 9.Choose Automatically and the video will play once you arrive at that slide 10.To go back to slide # 1, insert a return button 11.To insert a return button, click on the down arrow next to the word AutoShape (lower left-hand corner of screen) 12.Choose Action Buttons and then Home 13.Draw a home in on your slide and tell it to go to the beginning slide

Here are the steps 10.We also hyperlinked to a video 11.To Hyperlink highlight text or image on your slide 12.Then go back to the toolbar and choose Insert>Hyperlink> and then… 13.A. Choose a file on your computer (video, image, etc) B. Choose a place inside your document (another slide)

Pictures and Videos

Pictures, Videos, and Links…Oh My!!

Today is Your Birthday 6

Let’s check out the Calendar (found inside the Teacher Center)

Getting to the STEM of it 7

Teacher Center then Stem Connect

What if my students miss class?

Teacher Center then Ready Zone 8

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Writing Prompt Builder 20 Let’s check it outout

Quiz Builder Bonus Let’s check it outout

Bonus

Assignment Builder I lied

Let’s check one out -

Reading Support 32

Why should we use Close Captioning? 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

Finding CC files

Downloading a Closed Captioned Movie First right-click on the blue download icon, choose “Save Target As” and then place it in a folder on your computer Then repeat the process, this time right-clicking on the “CC” icon Adjust the CC settings within your Windows Media Player – CC settingsCC settings

Closed Captioning Trick Font Size –Open the CC file in a text editing program like Wordpad or Notepad –Locate the line of code that indicates “font size” –Increase the font size from 10 to 30 (or whatever you prefer) –Save the CC file

CC 10 pt 30 pt

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CC for Macs

Web 2 Point What? 2.0

Keyword search “Web 2.0” Great explanations of Web 2.0 and copyright in the 21 st century

2.0

Digital Storytelling I Lied

Student Example

Green Screen One more

Atlas Interactive Map Seriously 1 more

Let’s check out the Atlas (found inside the Teacher Center)

An adventure of a lifetime

It is nice to share Will this guy ever stop?

It is nice to share Lied Again

Professional Development PD

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