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http://www.teachertube.com/
Throughout my teaching experience,
I have used many
videos in order to take students to:
- Take students to locations outside our immediate grasp
- View science experiments not possible to complete within the classroom
- Allow students to travel back in time
Unfortunately, YouTube (which is what I would typically use) contains advertisements and videos inappropriate for student viewing
One of my cooperating teachers introduced me to Teacher Tube
This is a website (identical to YouTube) that only allows educational videos to be posted (no need to worry about inappropriate information)
Teacher Tube Can Be Used For Any Subject Area:
Videos are available for any subject area and any standard
How would I use Teacher Tube:
(While this is not a second grade standard, it was part of the school math curriculum)
Recently, I used Teacher Tube in a second grade classroom to explain the idea of fractions to my students.
The video I selected was a video about a group of students who found bars of gold and wanted to split them equally between one another.
In small groups (during centers) we watched the short video clip the imagined what we would do with the gold if we found it
Together we then solved multiple problems by splitting up our “gold bars” (which were really base ten blocks).
This is not only one way you can use Teacher Tube… Teacher Tube contains videos to match every standard imaginable…
There are many, MANY possibilities!!!!
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Unpack those survival kits & get busy!!
-Kambra Runyon
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