Kindergarten American Heroes Podcast
Kindergarten students can even make podcasts! They proved it today by recording their own voices and adding music to podcasts about the famous Americans they have been studying (SOL K.1). I gave them a GarageBand template with pictures of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Pocahontas, and Betsy Ross (which you can download by clicking here). We practiced what they were going to say ahead of time, then they recorded their voices on their own as they told about the importance of each person. Finally they added a song of their choice from the GarageBand library. I exported them as QuickTime videos so they could be posted online. Take a look at a student sample by clicking here. There’s a cool feature to these podcasts that I’d like you to notice. Down in the lower right hand corner of the video, you will see a list of the famous people’s names. You can click on a name and go directly to that part of the video. That’s the Chapters feature of GarageBand!