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> Embed video segments in PowerPoint presentations to make your lessons come alive. > Watch full-length videos to support or provide context for a classroom lesson. > Use pre-made Writing Prompts or create your own to give students practice crafting persuasive, narrative or descriptive writing passages. > Use the Closed Captioning feature to assist struggling readers. Let them read along as the narration and captioning provide valuable visual-audio connections. > Students can use articles and videos to research background information about events in today’s news and present a mini-report to the class. > Use the Calendar feature to highlight historic events that happened on students’ birthdays. > Minimize downtime: play a video segment for students to watch and respond to in their journals while you take attendance. > Show a video segment to inspire students at the beginning of a project or lesson. > View video segments to help complete KWL charts and reinforce key concepts. > Integrate images and video segments with Inspiration graphic organizer software to help students make visual connections to concepts. > Show video segments to capitalize on impromptu learning opportunities. > Build your classroom community by showing support for your students and their families. Invite them to career night and watch segments from the Careers For the 21st Century Video Library®. > Challenge students to answer essential questions in a game. (Hint: they find the answers by viewing video segments.) > Collect a series of videos in My Content to use as a “video library.” Let students view the segments to research questions posed in class. > Students create a personal video library of five segments that highlight their interests and personality. Each week one student presents a library to the class and explains why the segments are relevant. > Use historic images, video segments and speeches as primary source material. > Show health and guidance video segments to provide a meaningful context for discussions about respect, bullying and behavior. > Set the course for the rest of the year. Use Discovery Education streaming videos to support your lessons on teamwork, cooperation, and conflict resolution. > At the beginning of the week, show students a brief montage of video segments and images from topics you’ll be covering. Use brief segments from the middle of videos to create a sense of anticipation. > Challenge students to find the definition of vocabulary terms by viewing assigned video segments. > Have students use images and clip art to add visual impact to travel brochures they write and design. > Create interdisciplinary units by watching historical video segments to provide background for literature assignments. > Show math video segments to reinforce handson activities with manipulatives. > Create a set of “rainy day” video lessons for use during indoor recess. > Students can earn extra credit by completing supplemental quizzes you create using Quiz Builder. > Have students write and record their own original narration that describes an animal video segment. > Use Discov
 * 1) **MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS**
 * 1) **SUPPORTING RESOURCE**
 * 1) **JOURNALING**
 * 1) **READING SUPPORT**
 * 1) **CURRENT EVENTS**
 * 1) **TODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY**
 * 1) **MORNING WORK**
 * 1) **BUILD INTEREST**
 * 1) **KWL CHARTS**
 * 1) **GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS**
 * 1) **TEACHABLE MOMENTS**
 * 1) **ESL CAREER NIGHT**
 * 1) **SCAVENGER HUNT**
 * 1) **ENCYCLOPEDIA**
 * 1) **ALL ABOUT ME**
 * 1) **PRIMARY SOURCES**
 * 1) **MEDIATION**
 * 1) **CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT**
 * 1) **SET THE STAGE FOR THE WEEK AHEAD**
 * 1) **VOCABULARY SUPPORT**
 * 1) **CLASSROOM TRAVEL AGENTS**
 * 1) **CROSS-CURRICULAR REINFORCEMENT**
 * 1) **HANDS-ON MATH**
 * 1) **RAINY-DAY LESSONS**
 * 1) **EXTRA CREDIT**
 * 1) **ANIMAL PLANET**
 * 1) **BOOK CLUB**