Pollution and the Chesapeake Bay

Integrated with the Pollution and the Chesapeake Bay Slam Dunk Research Model

Create a public service announcement for your community about the pollutants affecting the Chesapeake Bay and how the community can help reduce these pollutants. Be sure to include:

• Pictures or video that represents the Bay
• Information on the pollutants in the Bay
  
• Ways every person can help reduce pollution
  
• What the community, as a whole, can do to reduce the pollutants

Curricuculum Connections/Outcomes

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Goal 6.0 Environmental Science – Students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the interactions of environmental factors (living and non-living) 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.

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.

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

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

• Research
• Script Writing
• Storyboarding
• Public Speaking
• Camera Techniques
• Computer Editing

1. Complete research component
2. Show example of a PSA and discuss the project (this sample gives facts about pollution and what we can do to stop it, but it is specific to Global Warming, not the Chesapeake)
3. Gather B-roll and stills (The Chesapeake Bay Program has a resource library of images free to download for educational uses)
   • of Chesapeake Bay locations
   • of pollutants and effects of pollutants
   • of people improving the bay thorugh their actions
4. Write script and storyboard
   • show script sample
   • show storyboard sample
5. Plan production
   • think about where and when to film
   • who is perfoming? Who is running the equipment? WHO'S IN CHARGE?
6. Rehearse
7. Shoot and compile
• remember to use good videography techniques
8. 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
9. 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