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Goal Directed Learning | Adoption Level

Subject: Social Studies

Video Transcription

[Teacher voiceover]

They have a folder, a student folder, and they save everything they do. And then at the end of the year I drag all of their work onto the desktop and I burn a CD, so they get an electronic CD portfolio of all of their work at the end of the year.

[Student 1 voiceover]

We have all of our information, stuff on reading that we’re doing, whatever we’ve done in writing, our poetry, so everything’s organized in a folder. Like this is our reading book and whatever we write, we have vocabulary words, we save it on here; when we’re done with the book we’ll print it out and paste it in a book.

[Student 2 speaking]

I have a poet note reflection that somebody else wrote about my work. Reflections basically told what each project represented.

[Teacher voiceover]

And it’s an exceptional way to have copies of all their work. They have all their writing, all their slideshows. We actually made a database, they made a goal for themselves of ten electronic projects; they’ve surpassed that goal. They’ve made more than ten projects this year.

Video Transcription
[Teacher voiceover]

They have a folder, a student folder, and they save everything they do. And then at the end of the year I drag all of their work onto the desktop and I burn a CD, so they get an electronic CD portfolio of all of their work at the end of the year.

[Student 1 voiceover]

We have all of our information, stuff on reading that we’re doing, whatever we’ve done in writing, our poetry, so everything’s organized in a folder. Like this is our reading book and whatever we write, we have vocabulary words, we save it on here; when we’re done with the book we’ll print it out and paste it in a book.

[Student 2 speaking]

I have a poet note reflection that somebody else wrote about my work. Reflections basically told what each project represented.

[Teacher voiceover]

And it’s an exceptional way to have copies of all their work. They have all their writing, all their slideshows. We actually made a database, they made a goal for themselves of ten electronic projects; they’ve surpassed that goal. They’ve made more than ten projects this year.

Objectives

  • To become experts on a particular part of history.
  • To select what information is most important when researching the topic.
  • To be able to share that knowledge with others, through application toward a presentation.

Procedure

  • Two Students choose a chapter, which interests them, from the social studies textbook that we will NOT get to at the end of the year.
  • They research it from a variety of sources, including the Internet.
  • They create a folder on the computer desktop to collect a minimum of 20 photos, graphs, etc. on their topic.
  • They write a script based on the most important information to share with the class on their topic.
  • They need to include two people from the period of history to include (one biography for each of the two students) in the iMovie.
  • Bring the photos into the iMovie program. Include titles, special effects, transitions, the Ken Burns effect.
  • Practice reading the script in short segments, and then record it.
  • Link the script to the pictures.
  • Add any last effects, or titles, and a music track if desired.

Technology Present

  • Computers for all students
  • iMovie

Grade Level: 3-5

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Video Reference Number: 1128

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