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Grades 6–12. In this application-based program, students explore product team roles as they create their own podcast through collaborative learning. The hands-on curriculum includes curated content from top podcasters. Scaffolded lessons break down the creative process step-by-step for added accessibility, especially for English learners. Comes with printed student notebooks and instructor guide, microphones, headphones, and digital audio workstation to help you set up your own sound studio.

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Amplify Student Voices with Podcasting
Grades 6–12. In this application-based program, students explore product team roles as they create their own podcast through collaborative learning. The hands-on curriculum includes curated content from top podcasters who offer their advice to up-and-coming audio artists. Scaffolded lessons break down the creative process step-by-step for added accessibility, especially for English learners. Microphones, headphones, and an easy-to-use digital audio workstation provide all the materials you need to set up your own sound studio. Leverage the buzz about podcasting and the intrinsic motivation that comes with this engaging medium.

Product Features

  • Complete program includes materials and curriculum
  • Designed for up to 30 students
  • Everything needed to run the program included in the kit
  • Comes with 50-seat, 1-year subscription to Soundtrap® for Education, the 2022 EdTech Breakthrough Award Winner for Creativity, Arts and Music; requires a renewal after the first year
  • Soundtrap® helps create an authentic and engaging recording experience for your students

Curriculum Topics:
1. Exploration of Student Interests and Podcast Formats
2. Storytelling Skills
3. Interviewing Skills
4. Storytelling with Sound
5. Storytelling with Music
6. Music Creation
7. Essentials of Editing
8. Podcast Team Challenge Launch
9. Pitching a Story
10. Storyboarding
11. Production Work
12. Post-Production Work
13. Podcasting Showcase

Each Activity Includes:

  • Schedule
  • Materials list
  • Topic background information
  • Step-by-step directions
  • Optional extension activities

Recommended Settings:

  • Summer camps
  • Classrooms
  • Out-of-school time programs
  • Libraries and makerspaces

Tech Requirements:

  • One device per student is recommended; each device should have web browser, USB port, and headphone jack
  • Recommended for use with Windows® or Mac® laptops and Chromebook® computers

Professional Development:

  • Includes a free 1-hour webinar orientation when your purchase totals $1,000+
  • Additional training available for purchase by special request

21st-Century Skills:
Helps students develop a set of widely applicable abilities essential for success in the information age:

  • Communication and collaboration
  • Creativity and innovation
  • Critical thinking and problem-solving
  • Flexibility and adaptability
  • Information, media, and technology literacy
  • Initiative and self-direction
  • Leadership and responsibility
  • Productivity and accountability
  • Social and cross-cultural skills

Standards Alignments:
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.1/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.5.1/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 4–6 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.1.B/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.5.1.B/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.1.B: Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions and carry out assigned roles.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.1.C/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.5.1.C/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.1.C: Pose and respond to specific questions to clarify or follow up on information, and make comments that contribute to the discussion and link to the remarks of others.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.2/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.5.2/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.2: Paraphrase portions of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. / Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.4/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.5.4/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.4: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.5/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.5.5/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.5: Add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.1/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.1: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.1.A/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1.A/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.1.A: Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure in which related ideas are grouped to support the writer's purpose.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.1.B/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1.B/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.1.B: Provide reasons that are supported by facts and details.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.1.D/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1.D/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2.F: Provide a concluding statement or section related to the opinion presented.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.2/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.2.A/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2.A/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2.A: Introduce a topic clearly and group related information in paragraphs and sections; include formatting (e.g., headings), illustrations, and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.2.B/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2.B/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2.B: Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples related to the topic.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.2.D/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2.D/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2.D: Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.2.E/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2.E/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2.A: Provide a concluding statement or section related to the information or explanation presented.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.3/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.3.A/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3.A/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.3.A: Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.3.B: Use dialogue and description to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.3.D/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3.D/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.3.D: Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.3.E/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3.E/CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.3.E: Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
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International Society for Technology in Education Standards

  • 1.1: Empowered Learner: Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving, and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences.
  • 1.2: Digital Citizen: Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal, and ethical.
  • 1.3: Knowledge Constructor: Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts, and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.
  • 1.4: Innovative Designer: Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful, or imaginative solutions.
  • 1.6: Creative Communicator: Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats, and digital media appropriate to their goals.
  • 1.7: Global Collaborator: Students use digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their learning by collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally and globally.
ISTE Standards for Students, ©2016, ISTE® (International Society for Technology in Education), www.iste.org. All rights reserved. ISTE was not involved in the production of this product and does not endorse it.

National Core Arts Standards

  • Connecting Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.
  • Connecting Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
  • Creating Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
  • Creating Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
  • Creating Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work.
  • Producing Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
  • Producing Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
  • Responding Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.
  • Responding Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
©2015 National Coalition for Core Arts Standards. Rights administered by State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education (SEADAE), www.nationalartsstandards.org. All rights reserved.

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