Podcast Proposal

Purpose of your Podcast:

The purpose of this podcast is to review with my students about the grouping of vertebrates as well as other students in third grade. This project will also be a summative assessment for the students participating in the podcast.:

Podcast Description:
My intended audience will be third graders as well as their parents. I think it will be great to add to my class blog because I have many parents that are separated. Some live in other states and I feel it’s a great way for them to keep in touch with my class and up to date.

I will broadcast monthly. My goal is to have a podcast with every new unit of Science. Science seems to be a difficult subject for students to understand because of the way it is written. I feel that podcasting will help make learning fun and understandable to all of my students.

I am going to have my students fully host the productions. I will help write the scripts and practice with my students. The best part about podcasting is that it will also help with fluency and speeches. My goal is to make my show no longer than 15 minutes.

The format of my of my podcast will be a radio newscast on science. Each student involved will represent a specific animal group. The students and I will develop a script to practice together. We will have a radio talk-show host, a zookeeper, and a member from the zoo to represent each group of vertebrates. All of these characters will be fictitious, however the students will use their textbooks to help develop the script for each character. Since this is my first podcast, the students I select will be my high ability achievers. This will help with differentiation of instruction for science.


OBJECTIVE OF PODCAST:
The student knows the common and distinguishing characteristics of groups of vertebrate animals (mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians).

District Objective:
Life Science Grade 3 Outcome 1
Students will identify how different animals live, grow, and change: list major types of ecosystems.