Rebecca

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Explanation

Discovery Education/United Streaming- In special education, it is a good resource to use many of the lessons provided especially when needing to make modifications to the general education curriculum. It is a good resource to include short clips/videos throughout a lesson to gain/increase student interest. In teaching any core course, there are many biographies such as Christopher Columbus. This gives the students a visual/audio resource rather than just reading a text or listening to lecture. Teachers can use this site to create quizzes online for many of the subjects such as a health lesson where you want the student to identify specific body parts and what they do. This provides students a fun and entertaining way to assess students’ comprehension of material. Teachers and students can utilize the many lessons, videos, and activities to research historical and controversial issues. It is a good way to compare older material with the current material such as showing the differences between a video from 1994 with a video from 2008.
 * Utilizing Discovery Education- United Streaming in the classroom- **
 * 1) For thematic planning of units and lessons across curriculum:
 * 1) Using short videos:
 * 1) Show historical biographies:
 * 1) Putting together an interactive assessment:
 * 1) Research:

Reflection on United Streaming: I really enjoy using United Streaming, I used it very often in my lessons. I believe students can relate better when things are put into perspective especially if its on video. Lets face it, they believe everything they see on tv. Even if its not a great representation of what is being portrayed, they still believe it. Also, I think this site is very useful in special education, especially when a teacher needs a tool for modification. This site saved me a lot of time and energy because the students lead many of the lessons by finding videos that they felt was useful and a good resource to the lesson being taught. I used it as a research tool for them to gain research skils in finding the segments and full videos they wanted to watch for the lesson. This is a site that is easy to navigate for teachers and students of all skills and ages.