I love incorporating videos into my lessons any time I can. It helps students build background knowledge or simply just reinforce a lesson just learned.
A new way I began using videos this past year was for extra motivation. This first video is an example of how I used it for that purpose. A few weeks before the reading TAKS test I began showing this video right before my reading lesson to get the students motivated about the long reading selections they get. I would tell them to imagine that their reading selection is like a book...watch and see! Soon the kids were singing the lyrics and moving their reading papers along to the music.
This second video is a short explanation of how the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico got started. With complicated topics like the massive oil spill we recently had, the shorter the explanation, the easier for kids to understand. So when I saw this video, I thought it was perfect.
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