Digital Science through Pod Casting

Sometimes elementary teachers are intimidated by teaching science to their students. With this lesson plan, teachers can utilize a middle schoolers' need to be the center of attention to teach science.

Seventh and Eighth grade science students will utilize the technology available to turn simple science experiments into teaching tools for elementary teachers.

Students will be put into teams of 3 to 4. Each of the team members will be responsible for the production of a teaching unit based on an elementary science concept. The teams will be given various simple experiments to choose from. They must make a short (3-5 minute) presentation, utilizing the experiment, to teach younger students a science concept of their choice.

Once they have completed their concept, they will present it to their classmates. Upon completion of the presentations, the students will make suggestions to the other teams about improvements. Once the presentations have been refined, each team will record their presentation digitally.

Each presentation will then be converted to a Pod Cast for access by the elementary teachers. All of the presentations can be cataloged for use at later dates. The catalog can continuously be updated and added to each year. This will allow students to view concepts recorded in several different manners.