Create a Class Podcast and Classroom Newscast BUNDLE | No Prep Digital Projects
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Get students engaged, acting as leaders, and improving speaking and listening skills as they work together to create a class podcast AND a class newscast! This resource includes two open-ended, cross curricular projects that get students taking on leadership roles and using teamwork to create a really cool end product!
What's Included:
1. Create a Class Podcast No Prep Digital Google Slides Project
2. Create a Classroom Newscast Open-Ended Class News Show Project | Digital and Printable Versions
Ways to Use These Resources:
- Students can report on new content area knowledge (math, science, social studies, history) - talk about new math concepts, report on historical events, share science knowledge
- Students can report on a novel they are reading, pairs perfectly with novel studies, book clubs, or literature circles
- Students can report on classroom related news, school news, local news, or current events
- Makes a great pre-test or midterm review - get students to report on what they've learned in your class all year
- Leave it open-ended and allow students to choose the direction they take!
These projects pair well with any subject area, but they also can be great student-led projects where students can choose to explore and discuss topics and events that they are passionate about! Keep it subject-specific or leave it open-ended and see where the students take it!
More Details About Each Resource
1. Create a Class Podcast
This digital Google Slides resource contains slides to guide your students in the process of creating their very own podcast!
In five steps, students will learn about what makes for a good podcast, brand their own podcast, use digital graphic organizers to plan, and then record their podcast episode!
This project can be done in groups of 2, all the way up to 4 or 5. This resource is perfect for ANY subject area, but fits in really well with history topics, social studies topics, reading, novel studies, informational writing, opinion writing, and narrative.
Click here to view a video preview of this resource!
This is a Google Slides resource. You must have access to Google Slides to utilize this resource. You can make a free Google account!
2. Create a Class Newscast
This student run news report project has students take on the role of news anchors, reporters, or guests, as they write and produce their own news show. Leave it open-ended, or assign an overarching topic for students to report on. You could even take your class newsletter up a notch by having students report the "news"!
No Prep - Digital and Printable Formats! + BONUS News Backdrops to "set the scene"!
This project can go in so many directions.
- Students can report on school-related news, current events in the world, or historical events.
- They can also use this as a project to accompany a novel study, sharing news stories that summarize important events in the novel, and interview the characters as guests.
- Instead of a traditional monthly class newsletter, you can have students report the news in their own class news show and share that with families!
The only limit to this project is the imagination! The cross-curricular possibilities are endless!
This Resource Includes:
1. Digital Google Slides Version
2. Digital PowerPoint Version
3. Printable Black & White PDF Version
4. News Backdrops to present and "set the scene"
Students Complete this Project in 6 No Prep Steps:
Step One: Name Creation
Step Two: Selecting Role
Step Three: Outline the Episode
Step Four: Script
Step Five: Practice
Step Six: Record
