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 * Activity #4: Audacity News Radio Broadcast**

__Timeframe:__ · 3-4 classes

__Appropriate Digital Learning Resource:__ · Audacity is a digital audio editor. It allows students to record their voices and manipulate the sounds which you have recorded.

__Materials:__ · Computer, paper, pencils

__Curriculum Connections:__ Science: · 108-3: describe how personal actions help conserve natural resources and care for living things and their habitats · 108-6: identify their own and their family’s impact on natural resources. Language Arts: · 1.2: ask and respond to questions to clarify information and explore solutions to problems (e.g., using an interview format) · 1.4: Listen critically to others ideas or opinions · 2.4: Engage in and respond to oral presentation

__Rationale:__ In this activity, students will be in small groups of 2 to 3, and will create a radio broadcast upon an issue they believe is relevant to their habitat. They can choose an issue or concern that they believe is positively affecting their habitat or negatively affecting their habitat. During the interview process, they will discuss with one another why these issues are important to them, and what they can do to fix them. By completing this activity, students get an opportunity to discuss the opinions of their group members and collaborate with each other on some possible solutions. By completing an activity such as this one, students get involved with their community issues and can relate their work at school to their work at home.

__Screenshots/How to use Audacity__:

__Final Product__: media type="file" key="News Radio Broadcast.mp3" width="240" height="20"