Integrating Video Production into the Curriculum
Video Production Title

Schoolyard Habitat

Video Type Quiz Show
Description/Overview

Integrated with the Schoolyard Habitat Research Model

A video program where contestants compete.to identify how a schoolyard can provide the living, non-living, and once living factors necessary for the survival of a variety of native species?

Approximate Time Needed 180 minutes (90 write, 45 film, 45 edit- includes research model time)
Curricuculum Connections/Outcomes How do non-native plants affect the environment? Are the effects more harmful or beneficial?
Information Literacy

AASL: 1, 2, 3

Technology Literacy

MSDE MTLSS: 1, 2, 3, 4 (5 if Internet research is used)

ISTE NETS: 1a, 1b, 2b, 3b, 4b

Media Literacy CML Core Concepts 1, 2
Learning Styles Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Tactile, Active, Reflective, Global, Analytical, Field Dependent
Skills
  • Research
  • Dialogue Planning
  • Ability to work in a team
  • Performing
  • Camera Techniques
  • Computer Editing
Production Environment Field Production
Activities
  1. View sample Sample: Game show
  2. Research topic
  3. Write questions, answers, and dialogue
  4. Plan production environment
  5. Rehearse
  6. Shoot
  7. Edit final product
  8. Present/ share
Differentiation
  • Assign production roles appropriate to student needs and/or abilities
  • Extended time
Assessment Suggestions Quiz Show rubric
Extension
  • 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