Lecture Series: A lecture series is exactly what it sounds like, except that you are not the one doing the lecturing. Students will listen to a variety of other speakers (podcasts, TED talks, RSA Animate talks, guest speakers) speak around a central theme or topic. In order to keep this from being a "sit and get", you will want to embed discussion and analysis activities like Think-Pair-Shares or Socratic Seminars. Unless the lectures are VERY short (think 5 minutes or less), you will want to space them out throughout a unit or pace them over the course of a lesson with conversation to break them up. And keep in mind that a "lecture" does not have to be traditional information-giving; it can be storytelling from someone who has experienced something like a character, or who has been through the time period that a text is about.
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Resources:
- TED Talks: www.ted.com/
- RSA Animate Talks: www.thersa.org/discover/videos/rsa-animate
- Podcasts: www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/
- StoryCorps: storycorps.org/
- The Moth: https://www.themoth.org/
