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Kami Toumey is an innovative 8th grade English teacher in Indiana who was looking for a substitute for the Serial podcast when she discovered Limetown. She is going to share some fun and creative ideas for teaching Limetown season one!
When the now infamous March of 2020 hit my school, we, like a lot of you, immediately fell into remote teaching. And like many of you, I looked at my existing lesson plans for the remainder of the year and to see if I could rework them for an online setting. This was a nonstarter. So, I scraped what I had and decided this was my chance to get creative. I follow a ton of fellow teachers on Instagram, and several were incorporating podcasts into their lesson plans. Using podcasts in the classroom was a goal of mine and what better time to try it then during remote teaching!
I had such a good response that I ended up presenting it to my team and we adopted it into our set curriculum and still teach it to this day. It is always a favorite amongst students every year! With that, here are some of my favorite ideas for teaching Limetown.
The first element I wanted to focus on when introducing students to Limetown was the fact that it is a fictional podcast! Fictional podcasts are not as popular or well known so this might be a foreign concept to students. Not knowing that when I initially started listening, you can imagine how quickly I began researching this town of scientists and their families to see if there was any information on their disappearances. To avoid the confusion I had, I had students look at drama elements found in radio broadcasts from the past (The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street or War of the Worlds) to ensure they knew from the beginning this was a dramatization.
Clearer Thinking is a podcast about ideas that truly matter. If you enjoy learning about powerful, practical concepts and frameworks, wish you had more deep, intellectual conversations in your life, or are looking for non-BS self-improvement, then we think you'll love this podcast! Each week we invite a brilliant guest to bring four important ideas to discuss for an in-depth conversation. Topics include psychology, society, behavior change, philosophy, science, artificial intelligence, math, economics, self-help, mental health, and technology. We focus on ideas that can be applied right now to make your life better or to help you better understand yourself and the world, aiming to teach you the best mental tools to enhance your learning, self-improvement efforts, and decision-making.
Clearer Thinking is a podcast about ideas that truly matter. If you enjoy learning about powerful, practical concepts and frameworks, or wish you had more deep, intellectual conversations in your life, then we think you'll love this podcast!
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