Reflection

This is the most valuable portion of any project (in my opinion), because it students to find aspects that they can be proud of and also it helps them...

 

CA Geology - Reflection

As with all major projects, the students need to complete a full written reflection when they have completed the presentation. This was given as a hom...

 

The Launch

Groups were chosen before the project started by me based on balance of skill sets in a hetergeneous classroom. This project overview was handed out t...

 

Introductory Research & Choosing a Topic (Benchmarks 1 & 2)

Students use the Internet and topically applicable books that I checked out from the local library to do general research about 8 possible topics. Eac...

 

Formulate a Research Question (Benchmark 3)

Students worked in project groups to discuss and formulate a question based on the topic they chose. This question needs to be very well written, beca...

 

Background Research (Benchmark 4)

Students are still sitting in project groups, but this is individual research. Each student needs to do their own research, and no two students in a g...

 

Formulate a Thesis (Benchmark 5)

Students are back to working as a group unit. Students used their research to create a strong and polished thesis, that is suported by information fro...

 

Public Service Announcement (PSA) Proposal (Benchmark 6)

Students will get individual time to work on their own proposal for the project, then "pitch" their idea to the group. The group will discuss the opti...

 

Create Script & Final Storyboard (Benchmark 7)

Students are essentially creating a plan for how they will create their movie. One half of the group is working on writing a script (according to the ...

 

Create Public Service Announcement (PSA) movie (Benchmark 8)

Students use imovie to create the PSA that they have carefully planned at the script/storyboard stage. Students will need to experiment with their com...

 

Script for Presentation - Artist Statement (Benchmark 9)

Students should be concurrently working on this script while the imovie PSA is being created. The students should switch off from working on the movie...

 

Practice for the Presentation (Benchmark 10)

Students are required to practice their script for their artist statement that they will present after the class sees their PSA on the final day of th...

 

Final Presentation of PSA and Presentation of Artist's Statement (Benchmark 11)

This is the big day!! The students will be prepped first about presentation skills and also about what a productive audience looks like. Students will...