One of my favorite ways to transform a classroom is to add a live webcam! Live webcams can immerse your students into content like nothing else.
Reading an informational text about the ocean or ocean animals? Have students put on their scientist hats and make some observations about this:
Learning about space? Have this on while the students do group work:
If you go to YouTube, you can literally search any topic and and the words "live feed" or "live cameras" to it and you may hit the jackpot!
My favorite website, for live cams, is Explore.org. The host cams of animals and habitats and there is always something new to explore.
Live cams are fabulous to:
- Create understanding on the setting of a novel
- Study the geography of an area
- Support informational text
Adding live webcams is such a low prep thing to do and really adds a sense of excitement to the class!
