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293: Nearpod: The Homeschool Resource You Never Knew You Needed

In this episode,guest Melissa Muir, shares how she uses Nearpod, an incredible tool that can transform your homeschooling experience. Melissa has been homeschooling her children in Ecuador for 13 years. She works with online teachers and homeschoolers, providing resources, self-paced classes, and tech-based tools to make learning more fun and effective.

What is Nearpod?
Nearpod is a platform offering a wide range of pre-made lessons across subjects. It’s free to start and offers interactive content such as:
– PDFs and videos (without YouTube distractions)
– Virtual Reality (VR) field trips
– Drag-and-drop activities
– Gamified quizzes
– PHET simulations and 3D models

How to Use Nearpod in Homeschooling
Melissa explains how homeschoolers can use Nearpod for specific topics or subjects that need extra resources. From history lessons to foreign languages, Nearpod provides engaging, supplemental learning activities.

Plans and Costs 
Nearpod offers a free plan (Silver), which gives access to plenty of content but limited storage. Paid plans like Gold ($159/year) offer additional storage and logins. Melissa share a code for 3  months of Gold free

Why Use Nearpod?
– Access to curriculum you may not own or feel equipped to teach
– Student-led, interest-based learning
– Easy to search by grade level and topic for ready-to-use lessons

Resources and Links 
– Nearpod
– 3 months of Nearpod Gold free:

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