Collaborative Learning | Adaptation Level

Subject: Social Studies

Objectives

• Students will use research skills to investigate the uses of aluminum and the importance of recycling.
• Students will use knowledge and experience to create an informative and entertaining video about about aluminum recycling.
• Students will be proficient in the use of multimedia equipment.
• Students will write script and perform dialogue.

Procedure

• A parent volunteer coordinated an aluminum can recycling center in the classroom.
• The students began to study aluminum and recycling on the internet.
• Using the facts retrieved, the students came up with various situations on campus in which we dispose of aluminum that could instead be recycled.
• Students then created a story board with an aluminum character named Roger Recycle (a ruler covered with sculpted aluminum foil) that flies around campus and encounters these situations and educates children.
• Students assigned character parts to the story board and wrote script for the different scenes.
• All students were given instruction on how to use the digital video camera and tripod.
• Students not acting in a scene were assigned to be a handler of the Roger puppet, script, tripod or camera equipment.
• Scenes were shot on campus and then imported into a computer.
• Video was edited by students using the software program iMovie and narration for the Roger character was recorded.

Technology Present

• Digital video camera
• Computer
• iMovie or MovieMaker
• Headset

Grade Level: 3-5

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Video Reference Number: 1072