Starter Question: How does one tell a two minute story about a life experience?
Anticipatory set:
The teacher will present a format to narrate a historical event. He or she will also offer advices on how to condense information.
Instructional Activity:
1.) The student will form groups of four. 2.) Each student in a group has a role: two researchers, a technician and a narrator. 3.) The students will first research information about their concepts. 4.) The technician will find images of their topic and use Photostory to formulate a sequence of pictures. 5.) The narrator will compose an exposition. 6.) The technician and the narrator will work together and create a Photostory. 7.) The researchers will validate their completion. Concepts: Pearl Harbor, Tehran Conference, Operation Torch, Operation Huskey, Operation Overlord, Battle of the Bulge, Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Midway, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Guided practice and checking for understanding:
With this cooperative learning strategy, the students collect and interpret information, in order to create a movie file about their assigned/ selected concept.
Independent practice:
Each student has his or her own role in the group. The students will be each held accountable for their role in the process.
Closure:
Students are instructed to hand in all materials and submit the file, or at least the projects.
Day Two: Photostory
Focus and Review of previous work/knowledge:
Starter Question: How does one tell a two minute story about a life experience?
Anticipatory set:
The teacher will present a format to narrate a historical event. He or she will also offer advices on how to condense information.
Instructional Activity:
1.) The student will form groups of four.
2.) Each student in a group has a role: two researchers, a technician and a narrator.
3.) The students will first research information about their concepts.
4.) The technician will find images of their topic and use Photostory to formulate a sequence of pictures.
5.) The narrator will compose an exposition.
6.) The technician and the narrator will work together and create a Photostory.
7.) The researchers will validate their completion.
Concepts: Pearl Harbor, Tehran Conference, Operation Torch, Operation Huskey, Operation Overlord, Battle of the Bulge, Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Midway, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Guided practice and checking for understanding:
With this cooperative learning strategy, the students collect and interpret information, in order to create a movie file about their assigned/ selected concept.Independent practice:
Each student has his or her own role in the group. The students will be each held accountable for their role in the process.
Closure:
Students are instructed to hand in all materials and submit the file, or at least the projects.
Instructional Materials:
Pearl Harbor Story.wmv
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