Give it a Listen: Planet Money for Educators
Are you looking for resources you can use to differentiate the learning opportunities available in your classroom? One great way to revamp your materials is by incorporating podcasts into your lesson plans. Podcasts are great for more than just providing content—listening to others read and speak helps students learn inflection & tone while building speaking skills. Podcasts can also be an aide for language learning with ELL students and provide an alternative method for receiving content for students with reading difficulties or who struggle with staying focused during direct instruction.
Planet Money for Educators
Using podcasts might sound great, but with the thousands of options available, which ones are the best to incorporate into your classroom? Today, we will highlight one great resource — NPR's Planet Money podcast. This podcast covers a variety of social studies topics that appear throughout the Arkansas Social Studies educational standards. When looking for ways to expand on these topics, their team has you covered. Planet Money for Educators was designed to make the Planet Money podcast easier for educators to incorporate into their curriculums.
Planet Money for Educators takes excerpts from the podcast series and provides additional suggestions for ways educators could use the resources in the classroom. Things like key vocabulary, discussion question options, and readable transcripts are provided as well as a Teacher's Guide that links to extra context and information for educators. With these additional materials, teachers can clearly connect the subjects and topics being discussed to their students' learning goals.
Providing a variety of ways for students to receive information keeps them curious and engaged in the classroom. Podcasts are great curriculum additions that can be used to meet the unique learning needs of each of your students. With a large variety of topics than expand over many social studies courses, Planet Money's resources for educators are exciting tools you can use to present new ideas and topics to your students.
