Education from your ipod!

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When the children both got ipods, I began to look for some way to use this technology for a bit of sneaky homeschooling. I soon discovered that there are some wonderful resources available - if you know where to look!

Educational podcasts are a wonderful way of homeschooling for free.

As well as podcasts, I have included some other mp3 type resources. Here are some of our favorite listens:

Science

• Great short science podcast - Bytesize Science - but may be more suitable for older children.
• The Naked Scientists do some great science podcasts - but some of them may be too adult. We have enjoyed their Kitchen Science Experiments.
• The Discovery Channel do a series of podcasts including a Science one, and an Animal Planet podcast (scroll down the page).
• Science and the Sea. A two minute podcast covering marine topics.

Video Podcasts

• Science Experiments from the Sporran Really great science video podcasts. We thought these were fun to watch - and easy enough to try the experiments yourself.
• The Wild Classroom do great video podcasts for EcoGeeks. Short but fun - the children really liked these.
• Is all about Math is a Math Video podcast. It is meant for kids but I found it really heavy going.
• National Geographic Podcasts. At the moment they are only listing Dog Whisperer video podcasts but may be worth checking back later.
• Bookwink. A video book review podcast for children.

Audiobooks

• Podiobooks have free serialized audiobooks that you can download on a schedule.
Learn out Loud have free audio downloads for kids. This is a great place to find educational podcasts for adults too!
• Childrens Podcast Bedtime stories (for younger children).

More Podcasts

• The Puffin Podcast Puffin Books podcast of book extracts and author interviews.
• The BBC have a number of different podcasts. Their childrens podcasts can be found here.
• History According to Bob Fun history podcasts. See Archives for a listing of past shows.
• Historical Podcasts Huge listing of historical podcasts.
• KidsCast is not being produced anymore - but at the bottom of the page is a link to his science fiction (family friendly) podcasts.

If you are happy to listen online at your PC then try:

• Go4it Radio

Enjoy your listening! If you find any other great free educational podcasts then I would love to hear from you. For more ideas for using your MP3 player - check out my Educational iPod Ideas.

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