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When it comes to integrating unitedstreaming into into your curriculum, the possibilities are unlimited. Start with these 50 ways to integrate digital media resources. As you use unitedstreaming, devise your own integration ideas.

**1 Multimedia Presentations ** Embed clips in PowerPoint presentations to make your lessons come alive. **2 Supporting Resource ** Watch full-length videos to support or provide context for a classroom lesson. **3 Journaling ** Use Writing Prompts and the Image Library to ignite students’ imaginations. **4 Reading Support ** Use the closed-captioning feature to assist struggling readers. Let them read along as the narration and captioning provide valuable visual audio connections. Students research supplemental information about news events in today’s news and present a mini-report to the class.
 * 5 Current Events **

**6 Today Is Your Birthday ** Use the Calendar feature to highlight events that happened on student birthdays. Minimize downtime: play a video for students to watch and respond to while you take attendance.
 * 7 Morning Work **

**8 Motivation ** Show a video clip to motivate students at the beginning of a unit. **9 KWL Charts ** View video clips to help complete KWL charts and reinforce key concepts. **10 Graphic Organizers ** Integrate with Inspiration graphic-organizer software to help students make meaningful connections. **11 Teachable Moments ** Show video clips to take advantage of impromptu learning opportunities. **12 ESL Career Night ** 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 clips.)
 * 13 Scavenger Hunt **

**14 Encyclopedia ** Use the video library as the classroom encyclopedia. Let students use // unitedstreaming // to look up answers to questions asked in class. **15 All About Me ** Students create a personal video library of five clips that highlight their interests and personality. Every week one student presents a library to the class and explains why the clips are relevant. **16 Show What You Know ** Students use video clips as part of a multimedia presentation that illustrates their mastery of a concept learned in class. **17 Mediation ** Show clips from the health and guidance clips to provide a meaningful context for discussions about respect, bullying, and behavior. **18 The First Six Weeks: Character Development ** Set the course for the rest of the year. Use unitedstreaming videos to support your lessons on teamwork, cooperation, and conflict resolution. **19 The Week Ahead ** At the beginning of the week, show students a brief montage of clips and images from topics you’ll be covering. Use clips from the middle of videos to create a sense of anticipation. **20 Vocabulary Support ** Challenge students to find the definition of vocabulary terms (tectonic plates, electoral college) by identifying and watching videos. **21 Quiz Challenge ** Let students stump each other by creating their own quizzes in Quiz Center. **22 Cross-Curricular Reinforcement﻿ ** Create interdisciplinary units by watching historical clips to provide background for literature assignments. **23 Hands-On Math ** Combine math videos with relevant manipulatives. **24 Rainy-Day Lessons ** Create a set of “rainy day” video lessons for use during indoor recess. **25 Extra Credit ** Students can earn extra credit for creating a set of video challenges using questions from Quiz. **26 Rewards ** Students earn // unitedstreaming // video-viewing time or good behavior. **27 Book Club ** Give each student a book from the Great Books series. Watch the // unitedstreaming // video to reinforce parts of the book, and hold a literary discussion. **28 Bulletin Boards ** Use the Image Library and Clip Art Gallery to provoke comments about your bulletin boards. **29 Discussion Guides ** Use discussion guide material and blackline masters to supplement existing lesson plans. **30 Quick Holiday Lessons ** Students view videos and complete blackline masters from the Holidays Facts and Fun series to learn about holidays. **31 Alphabet Line ** Print out each letter of the alphabet in the Image Library to create a unique alphabet line above your chalkboard. **32 Make-Up Work ** Make sure no students miss a lesson by creating a CD of clips to send home for make-up work. **33 Parent Night ** Select clips to demonstrate to parents at backto-school night. **34 Editable Clips ** Create individualized lessons by adding voiceover and splicing clips using iMovie software. **35 Learning Stations ** Create self-directed “learning cards” so students can complete specific lessons on their own. **36 Multimedia Newspaper ** Assign groups of students a different beat each week. Have them report their stories by creating multimedia presentations with publishing software and video clips. **37 Daily News Broadcasts ** Schools with student-run closed closed-circuit TV stations can use video clips as daily ‘factoids’on the morning news broadcast. Incorporate the factoids into your morning class meeting. **38 Professional Development ** Show video clips from the // unitedstreaming //adult learner videos during in-service days and staff meetings. **39 Virtual Field Trips ** Schedule a regular “lunch and learn” club, where students can eat lunch while they watch a video about somewhere else in the world. **40 Science Projects ** Create hypotheses based on experiments conducted in science videos. Conduct the experiments in the classroom and compare results. **41 The Great Debate ** Give student teams a topic and challenge them to defend their arguments by using video clips and research as evidence. **42 Get Moving ** Reinforce the importance of nutrition and fitness by showing physical education clips in the cafeteria during lunch or in the classroom. **43 Timelines ** Create a timeline of events by integrating clips into Inspiration or PowerPoint. **44 Film Festival ** Have students produce their own videos by editing clips and adding voiceovers. Let students view their classmates’ creations and have the filmmakers answer questions from the audience. **45 Geography Game ** Show clips about different geographical locations and challenge students to guess the specific details based on their knowledge of geography. **46 Fliers and Backpack Notes ** Use one of the thousands of images in Clip Art Gallery to liven up your announcements and catch parents’ notice. **47 Mini-Units ** Use the weekly Teacher Feature to access materials to facilitate a short lesson about a subject relevant to the curriculum or current events. **48 Game Show Test Quiz Review ** Add another medium to the frequently used quizshow format by making video clips the basis for questions. **49 Freeze Frame ** Stop videos mid-clip for deeper investigation or discussion of details and concepts. **50 Culture Club ** Have student groups research an area of the world and create a presentation of video clips that highlight the people, economy, and tradition