Two teachers and I host an after school PBL group for grades 3-5 that meets once a week. The emphasis was to generate a passion project the students can accomplish on their own.
We started by brainstorming concerns our community encounters and even thinking globally such as destruction of rainforests, famine and more.
The group was most passionate about animals, primarily pets. They came up with many ideas including raising money for a nearby shelter, running an adoption at the school, even volunteering their time at a shelter. As a whole they wanted to reach as many people as possible and decided on videos to be shared on social network sites due to their interest in video media and the fascination on how videos can be shared globally and the amount of views they receive.
In small groups of their choosing they used a STORY MAP GRAPHIC ORGANIZER found on DE to plan out the events of their video.
Through the writing process, they developed their skit and studied their lines.
The students filmed their own videos using an Ipad and with Greenscreen by DoInk, and IMovie, they edited their videos. Students used ICabMobile to download background videos or found images on Google to use as their backgrounds. Most of the videos were done directly on the Ipad. Two groups wanted more so we uploaded them to Google Drive and downloaded them to the Macbook Pro and they worked from there.
Ultimately we shared the commercials with their parents and the groups presented their videos along with a speech they wrote to explain the project.
Here are two of the five videos we created.
Click the CAPTION of each video to view.
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| Animal Adoption |
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| Guide to Owning a Dog |
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