Storytelling With Purpose Resources

This is a curated list of resources for multimedia research projects, digital stories, and authentic, student-centered learning to support the projects from the book, Storytelling With Purpose: Digital Projects to Ignite Student Curiosity.

Student examples

There Is Light documentary about Vietnam

Good Job Dave PSA about climate changePlastic Jungle website by Agata Nalin

Dilation literary magazine (digital book)

Plastic Jungle website by Agata Nalin

Featured teachers

Karrin Burns

The Chat With Mrs. Burns’ Third Grade Class podcast

Jodie Deinhammer

Books by Jodie

Dan Ryder

Critical Creativity book

Leah Lacrosse

Old woman creek book

General resources

Ken Burns on Storytelling

Journalism (STEM for the Humanities)

Society of Professional Journalists https://www.journaliststoolbox.org/

Journalism Education Association https://jea.org/wp/

National Scholastic Press Associationhttps://studentpress.org/nspa/

Student Press Law Center https://splc.org/

STUDENT EXAMPLES Good Job Dave PSA about climate change
There Is Light documentary about Vietnam

Plastic Jungle website by Agata Nalin
https://express.adobe.com/page/DzQ3SC4FDXAMQ/?fbclid=PAAabjoBXErqLVX4oCsYpvLrZWLFsxTmMRq4OP94SIQ-ktOxMf2PUjE2I0emc

Dilation literary magazine (digital book)
https://books.apple.com/us/book/dilation-magazine/id6450068629
FEATURED TEACHERS
GENERAL RESOURCES
RESEARCH AND RELATED RESOURCES
“But for the most part their curiosity was directed towards social and extracurricular interests — not schoolwork. The challenge for teachers is finding a way to encourage interest in what’s happening in class.”
https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/51538/the-benefits-of-cultivating-curiosity-in-kids

Research: “The more we want to know an answer, the more memorable it becomes” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02402.x

How to teach civics through inquiry based learning KQED
“We teach kids facts as ready-made without giving them the capacity and cultivating the capability to ask what is the relationship between claim and evidence,” The need for media literacy to teach civics.
https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/53123/how-to-teach-students-historical-inquiry-through-media-literacy-and-critical-thinking

“Encouraging kids to think like detectives”
Research: “The more we want to know an answer, the more memorable it becomes” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02402.x

Harvard Project Zero, “see, think, wonder”
https://pz.harvard.edu/resources/see-think-wonder

Why are we teaching science wrong and how to change it:
https://www.nature.com/articles/523272a

“Read the world”
https://ncte.org/blog/2020/01/reading-world-case-multimodal-literacy/

Factors That Influence Sense of Place as a Learning Outcome and Assessment Measure of Place-Based Geoscience Teaching
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.454.544&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Effects of Experiential Learning Programmes on Adolescent Prosocial Behaviour, Empathy, and Subjective Well-being: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.709699/full

Effects of project-based learning on AP test scores
https://cesr.usc.edu/sites/default/files/Knowledge%20in%20Action%20Efficacy%20Study_18feb2021_final.pdf
BOOKS AND ARTICLES
Click here to edit.
Click here to edit.
Click here to edit.

Drag up or down to resize

- ABOUT
  
  PODCAST
  
  CONTACT
- Stay in touch! Subscribe to my newsletter to get free resources from my conferences & workshops.
- Subscribe to my newsletter
- © COPYRIGHT 2025. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Enroll Now