Integrating Video Production into the Curriculum
Video Production Title

How Humans Affect SAV
Video Type Public Service Announcement
Description/Overview

Integrated with the How Humans Affect SAV Slam Dunk Research Model

Create a public service announcement which identifies 3 everyday things you could do which would help preserve SAV (submerged acquatic vegetation). Use your research to choose the three things you think could make the biggest difference. Then, create a PSA explaining this information to the public.
Approximate Time Needed 270 minutes (90 research/write, 90 film, 90 edit)

Curricuculum Connections/Outcomes

MD VSC

Goal 6.0 Environmental Science – Students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the interactions of environmental factors (living and nonliving) and analyze their impact from a local to a global perspective.

Indicator 1: Recognize and explain how human activities can accelerate or magnify many naturally occurring changes.
Identify and describe how human activities produce change in natural processes, such as climate change (acquisition, use, and distribution of energy resources), development (erosion, habitat destruction and introduction of nonnative species) and cycling of matter (waste disposal practices).
Information Literacy AASL: 1, 2, 3
Technology Literacy

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

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

Media Literacy CML Core Concepts 1, 3, 4, 5
Learning Styles Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Tactile, Active, Reflective, Global, Analytical, Field Independent
Skills
  • Research
  • Script Writing
  • Storyboarding
  • Public Speaking
  • Camera Techniques
  • Computer Editing
Production Environment Field Production
Activities
  1. Complete research component
  2. This video propoganda commercial was produced in 1947 to promote the use of chemical pesticides- an optional video supplement to the research
  3. Show example of a PSA and discuss the project (the example video deals with water conservation but shows 3 human actions)
  4. Gather B-roll and stills (The Chesapeake Bay Program has educational use SAV images that can be used)
    • of different types of SAV
    • of actions people are taking to help preserve Chesapeake SAV
  5. Write script and storyboard
  6. Plan production
    • think about where and when to film
    • who is perfoming? Who is running the equipment? WHO'S IN CHARGE?
  7. Rehearse
  8. Shoot and compile
  9. Edit final product
    • Use MovieMaker (or other software)
    • Import the video from camera and/ or other sources
    • Arrange video / pictures
    • Add transitions and titles
    • Edit audio
    • Finalize and save
  10. Present/ share
Differentiation
  • Assign production roles appropriate to student needs and/or abilities
  • Extended time
Assessment Suggestions PSA 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