By: Kirstine Rios, Coral Masek, Sara Kash-Brown

IT Project: iMovie Lesson Plan

Endorsement Subject Class Unit Lesson Resources High School Social Studies American History American Pastime The United States: Progressive Era to Present Print: Classroom Textbook, Class Readings, Class Notes Electronics: Mac computers/laptops with iMovie software NE (Nebraska) Standards: Describe concepts of time and chronology (e.g., Progressive Era, Expansion, World War I, The Depression, The New Deal, World War II, Cold War, Civil Rights Era, Space Exploration, Economic Boom and Recessions, Contemporary United States). Select, record, and interpret key national and global events in chronological order (e.g., timelines with eras and selected key event). Through iMovie students will reinforce the information they have learned throughout the semester. Creating an iMovie about a specific time period will be an end of the year project for the students to review for the final. They will create a iMovie of a specific time in history from the Progressive to Present Era. The teacher will need to reserve the computer lab or a mobile lab with laptops for the students to work on. The computers need to have the iMovie software available for the students to use. The students will incorporate their knowledge from class lectures, readings, and notes into a short iMovie. Objective 1: Reinforce knowledge about American History gone over in class. Objective 2: Learn how to use iMovie software to create videos.

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Objective 3: Learn how to collaborate with classmates on a project. Preparing the Student The students will be informed of the basic use of iMovie and the proper uses of the program. The teacher will give a tutorial on using iMovie, show a tutorial video, and will give the students a simple assignment, so the students will become familiar and comfortable with using the iMovie software. Students will be learning through five of the stages in Blooms Taxonomy: Remember - Students will need to list different events that occurred in their assigned time period. Understand - Students will summarized the facts about each even when presenting their iMovie and will be able to differentiate events among the time periods they learned in class. Apply - Students will illustrate the happenings of their time period through their iMovie. Analyze - Students examine the reasons why specific events occurred in their time period. Create - Students will design an iMovie to represent their assigned time period. 1. Divide class into groups. 2. Give the class instructions on what they are to do. Show them an example and the rubric on how they will be graded. Within the rubric, list an allotted length for the iMovie. Other aspects to determine in the rubric would be pictures or footage and audio if necessary. 3. Assign each group a time period to make an iMovie over their time period. 4. Provide the class with computers to start to create their iMovie over the information gathered (either in the computer lab or the classroom). 5. Give the class two days in class to work on their iMovie (amount of class time depends on the class). 6. Walk around the classroom throughout the class period and see how each group is progressing. 7. If students are taking longer, give them an extension

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(another day in class to work on their iMovies). 8. Once the iMovies are done, have each group show their video. After the video, each group should go into more detail on what was in their video. 9. After one group is done presenting their time period, give the students a few minutes to complete that time periods portion of the worksheet. 10. Once all of the groups have presented their iMovies, give the class a couple days to review for the final exam. 11. Give the students the final exam. Measurement of Success The initial measurement of success would be a worksheet that the teacher had created over all of the different project timelines that will be handed out at the beginning of each class and picked up at the end. The worksheet will cover the different events and basic facts about the timeline. The final measurement of success will be the final exam the teacher creates. The exam will be comprehensive and will include all of the time periods used in this assignment. There will also be questions on the exam that consist of information not mentioned in the iMovies, but mentioned in class through readings, lectures, and notes.

Example of a Historical Time Period iMovie: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By9PKtHjdYsYLWFPNTdPRHBqTE0/edit?usp=sharing