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Ryan Corbett
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Project
Summary
Dunkirk City Schools
Students will create a PhotoStory
project in which they will be responsible relaying information from
one section of a chapter to the rest of their class. They will first
outline the section of the chapter, pulling out what they consider
to be the most important information. Next they will go onto the
internet to find pictures that correspond to the information. Using
PhotoStory 3 students will download their information and pictures
to explain to the rest of the class what their section was about and
why it was important.
2. Clear Purpose and
Objective:
To get students to be able break
down information from a chapter and to decipher that information
in a orderly and logical way.
3. Stakeholders: grade level,
who will benefit, who will participate in this project.
18 students from my 8th
grade advanced class will be attempting this project.
4. U.S. History Content Area
Industrial revolution.
5. Outline Describing Content
6. Software to be used,
internet materials, contacts, etc.
Internet web site on various
topics to locate photos.
7. Level of Student
Involvement
100 %
8. Evaluation process (include
students when possible)
I personally was not happy with
my students effort on this project. They seemed to struggle, on the
outlining phase of the project, trying to decide if the information
was important or not. Then some of them did fine on the outlining
but choose no to add all their information into the project. I think
the after everything was said and done five days to prepare was not
enough time maybe seven or eight would be better. I am chalking this
one up to a learning experience for everyone involved. Now that the
students are a little more familiar with the process they will do
better next time
9. Timeline: how you envision
the project being carried out between start up and conclusion
Day one read and outline the
section of the chapter. Day two go online and find pictures Day
three continue to find pictures and start download into
PhotoStory. Day four continue download of information and
pictures. Day five add special effects and music to project.
My project idea was
to have the students in my room teach themselves a chapter. I chose
the industrial revolution as the chapter; this was done for several
reasons. First, the chapter had four sections and that is how many
groups I wanted. Second, it is a broad topic which they could bring
in a great deal of outside information on. Third, it would be
interdisciplinary with several classes. And lastly there would be
plenty of photos for them to find from the internet on the topic.
My goal was to
have the kids broken into four groups, each group would then be
assigned a section of the chapter which they would read, outline,
and make notes on what they thought was important information. These
notes would then be placed in a Photostory 3 program along with
relevant photos and shown to the class. Photostory 3 is a very user
friendly program which allows one to add narration, text, photos,
music, and some special effects.
Everything went
very well in this project until it came time to put information and
photos into the Photostory 3 program. All my groups seemed to revert
to 2nd grade, they were more interested in being funny
then creating a project that I expected they would. During narration
they made funny noises and sounds along with funny voices. They were
more interested in using special effects than inserting the
information they had written out in their outline piece. I even had
created a grading rubric which they ignored. I honestly believe that
with a different group of kids this idea would work great.
I set aside a
10 to 12 day block of time to complete the project.
Day 1-2
read and outline section of the chapter (making sure to pull out all
important information.)
Day 3-4
collect pictures from internet.
Day 5-6
enter information into Photostory 3.
Day 7-8
work on narration, music, effects.
Day 9-12
present to class.
Ryan Corbett
8th grade
Social Studies
Dunkirk Middle
School
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