NPS Peas in a Podcast: Recent Episodes
Nels Tooker
NPS Peas in a Podcast features our 5th and 6th grade classroom at Newington Public School. It's the definition of a student-led podcast as the writers, directors, hosts, voices, and editors are all age 12 and under. Tune in to see what our amazing class is up to.
In our last episode of the school year, we take you with us on field trips to Fenway Park to meet a real NASA astronaut and to UNH Manchester where we extracted DNA and looked at our bacteria under the microscope. We also interview more of our partners and you won't want to miss that. Thanks for coming with us on our space soil journey. We'll be back in the fall. See you then!
It's book review bonus episode time! We did a bunch of reading this year and our class is here to tell you about it with our book reviews. If you need a suggestion for a great book, listen in and check out these titles:
- A Mango Shaped Space by Wendy Mass
- The Warriors Series by Erin Hunter
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan
- The Wild Bunch by Jan Gangsei
- Blended by Sharon M. Draper
- Mocking Jay by Suzanne Collins
- The Lifters by Dave Eggers
We've learned a ton with our senior scientist partners from Team Cooke NoMADS. In this episode, we share more about that experience. We also profile two more science partners, talk about how to grow bacteria, and walk you through some of the amazing experiments we've done this year. Oh, and prepare to have your mind blown with some more space fun facts.
In episode 2, we introduce you to some of our UNH Manchester partners. As we learned in episode 1, they organized a contest to send soil sample to space, and we won! After we found out that we won the contest, each student partnered up with a student from UNH Manchester. We did some experiments about bacteria with them and got to know each other as our space soil journey got started. Listen in and join us as we continue to document our adventure with Team Cooke NoMADS.
We are sending a sample of soil from our town to space! In our first episode of season 4 we share the start of our journey. It's a story about how we entered a statewide contest to have the chance to send a soil sample to space. Spoiler alert: We won! Tune in to find out about the contest and our first soil sample collection.
*Note: Students use pseudonyms to protect their privacy.
We spent some time this fall learning about ecosystems and how they function. This podcast features students sharing what they know about ecosystems, some information and advice about climate change, and of course a little humor to go with it. We hope you enjoy listening to the fruits of our research and learning.
In our final episode of season 2, we share journal entries that we wrote during the COVID-19 remote learning experience. It's been a challenging time for all of us. Tune in and hear what our class was thinking during this historic time period.
Our class is doing remote learning due to the COVID-19 outbreak, but that hasn't stopped us from writing some amazing stories. The challenge was to create stories with just 100 words. Listen and enjoy!
This podcast is about the American Revolution, especially the Declaration of Independence. It will tell you questions and answers about the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution.
This is my podcast about Revolutionary War cannons. This is the best podcast you are ever going to hear.
This is an episode about slavery during the American Revolution. This is inspired by a certain podcast. It will be mentioned in the podcast enjoy.
This is a podcast part about the battle of Yorktown in the American revolution, ENJOY!!!!
In this episode a fifth grader reviews George Washington. She talks about Washington's life and says a lot of interesting facts about him.
This podcast will have two students reviewing revolutionary war patriots. In a funny yet smart way this podcast explains everything there is to know about Patriots.
So take a seat and listen to this amazing and spectacular podcast.
This is my review of muskets that i worked on so hard and recorded. i worked on for so long and put a lot of work into it. I hope you like it.
This episode will be about The Battle Of Bunker Hill. Two 5th graders (with jokes) reviewing the one day Battle Of Bunker Hill.
Tune in to listen all about the clothes and uniforms from the American Revolution!
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Welcome to our second season. In this episode we take you on a trip to Fenway Park, and along with our kindergarten and first grade pals to an apple orchard. Don't miss the interview with our secretary, Ms. Loewy and our sixth grade spotlight with our newest NPS student. Loyal listeners will notice our new theme song. We are also using pseudonyms this year to protect student privacy and comply with data protection rules. Well, what are you waiting for? Push play already!
Whether you need a new book to read this summer or you just want to hear the opinions of some NPS readers, we've got you covered with our book review bonus episodes. Students from each class are here to review a favorite book they read this year. Tune in and get reading!
Whether you need a new book to read this summer or you just want to hear the opinions of some NPS readers, we've got you covered with our book review bonus episodes. Students from each class are here to review a favorite book they read this year. Tune in and get reading!
Whether you need a new book to read this summer or you just want to hear the opinions of some NPS readers, we've got you covered with our book review bonus episodes. Students from each class are here to review a favorite book they read this year. Tune in and get reading!
Whether you need a new book to read this summer or you just want to hear the opinions of some NPS readers, we've got you covered with our book review bonus episodes. Students from each class are here to review a favorite book they read this year. Tune in and get reading!
Come sing and dance with us during our annual lip dub. We also share our science projects, interviews with Ms. Lundborn and Eilis. Our hilarious original play A Tale of a Questionable Quest was amazing, so we'll tell you about that too.
Click this link to see the 2019 NPS Lip Dub.
Come with us on a wild safari comedy skit. We'll also tell you about spirit week, basebalgebra, and our project extravaganza: March Maker Madness. And don't miss the 6th grade spotlight with Klaire, and an interview with our teacher, Mr. Tooker. What are you waiting for? Stop reading this and start listening!
This mid-season bonus episode features our entry into an NPR podcast contest. We decided to revisit our trip to Mount Cardigan and tell the story of our epic field trip earlier in the year. If you want to see the student-edited video that goes along with this episode, go to this link: Cardigan Mountain Video. Enjoy the episode, and wish us luck in the contest!
We have a new comedy skit in this episode. We also take you on the rink for some ice skating and reveal the winner of our Fraction Fruit Salad contest. It's a super delicious episode, so try not to eat your headphones!
Our fantasy football season is over and we've got the results for you in this episode. Also, check out our Mesopotamian museum interviews, silly surveys, funny fake ads, and more!
In this episode, we preview our Mesopotamian Marvels museum project, have fun with fantasy football, interview our kindergarten teacher, Ms. Brown, shine our sixth grade spotlight on Sophia and more! Join us for another great episode of NPS Peas In A Podcast.
In this episode, we take a trip to Cardigan Mountain, update you on our fantasy football season, and interview the best chef a school could ask for, Chef Tom! Join us for all this and more.
After lots of thinking, planning, creating, and editing, we present to you our first episode. Join us this episode for an interview with Mr. Latchaw, fantasy football weeks 1 and 2, a report on our upcoming field trip, project update, and more all created by 5th and 6th grade students at Newington Public School.