Integrating Video Production into the Curriculum
Fossil Finders
Integrated with the Fossil Finders Research Model
A video program where contestants compete in order to learn about Fossils.
How do fossils provide us with information about animals that lived long ago?
Here are some questions that can be used to formulate the game show.
- What is a fossil?
- What do fossils look like?
- What are the two types of fossils?
- How are fossils formed?
- What is paleontology?
- How are fossils formed?
- What do fossils tell us about the animal?
AASL: 1, 2, 3
MSDE MTLSS: 1, 2, 3, 4 (5 if Internet research is used)
ISTE NETS: 1a, 1b, 2b, 3b, 4b
- Research
- Dialogue Planning
- Ability to work in a team
- Performing
- Camera Techniques
- Computer Editing
- View sample Sample: Game show
- Research topic
- Write questions, answers, and dialogue
- Plan production environment
- Rehearse
- Shoot
- Edit final product
- Present/ share
- Assign production roles appropriate to student needs and/or abilities
- Extended time
- Submit to a contest
- Peer critique and/or gallery walk
- Submit to BCPS Education Channel
- Upload to Safari or SchoolTube
- Embed in a PowerPoint presentation
- Add to electronic portfolio
- Broadcast school wide