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Everyone knows YouTube.com, free Video Media site. It seems like everyone these days are using YouTube to make themselves stars, market their products and services and generally to ensure that every part of anything important is captured on video by someone somewhere. But how many of you ever considered using YouTube for homeschooling phone?
How in the world, you ask, could anyone use a user-uploaded videos to teach? Easy, if you do a bit of looking around in advance. You’ll probably spend more time to browse through the available footage for just the “right” content, but with a little persistence and patience, and perhaps a little luck, too, you’ll find plenty of material to add to the learning experience.
YouTube for Social Studies: Much of the biggest moments of the 20th century and it seems like all the 21st century, as well, have been captured by video cameras. Do not read about an event – witness it firsthand. Search event itself – 1968 Olympics – or key number – Neil Armstrong. You may not have been born when the moon landing occurred, but you can still watch them with all the awe and amazement of those who were there. To find events in the days before he took photos, there are a wide choice of video among all movies ( The Crossing , for example,) documentaries ( Ancient Egypt National Geographic is ) and home movies of costumed reenactments. And then there are travel documentaries, giving you the real picture of the culture and places you can not really experience a book
YouTube scientific :. Everything from nature documentaries to home-made science experiments have been posted on YouTube. You can even see frog dissection, a good example of Bernoulli’s principle in action or volcanic caught on film
YouTube mathematics :. Having trouble with algebra? Or calculus? Or are you stuck on long division? There’s a video tutorial for all. You’ll probably find what you are looking for quickly and easily by adding the “Basics” keyword search – algebra basics, basic division algorithm, etc.
YouTube Language From Phonics video with catchy tunes and animation for the little ones to a college professor giving a tutorial on effective essay writing, the scenes from Shakespeare production both famous and not-so-famous reading or reading poetry, YouTube has a plethora of videos to add some spark to your language lessons. You can even see the vid on how to make the dreaded sentence diagramming. Not that you’d want to, but you can …..
YouTube for a foreign language: YouTube has at least one channel devoted to teaching foreign languages basics – foreign language house. But you can also find music videos, newscasts, even soap operas and movies in a wide variety of foreign languages
YouTube Arts Center :. Want to watch a biography of Leonardo da Vinci from the History Channel? Or how about a video series on watercolor techniques? Or have front row seats to the opera Strauss Blue Danube Waltz by Vienna Philharmonic? You can have everything in one afternoon thanks to more culturally literate side of YouTube. Talk about music video!
You can not think of YouTube as an educational aid, but as you can see, it has a lot to offer homeschool your. And it’s all free, which makes it even better!
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