Our students are expected to share their learning through a variety of media, so we like to create fun, engaging projects with each unit of study! Second grade was researching various types of weather and wanted a special way to produce their hard work!
We created newscasts using the FABULOUS green screen app by Doink! We use this app for many purposes, but this project was the first time we tried using all three layers of movie magic!
Our students saved images of their storms, an empty newsdesk and then dressed for the part! They were able to be reporters at a newsdesk to introduce their friends, and change scenes using iMovie to create a complete weather research report!
We used our green wall, a desk and the app by Do Ink to create the fun. Each child was filmed sitting at the desk, and standing by the green wall with a microphone, just like the real weather reporters! We put all the clips together in iMovie, and shared them with our families on Seesaw Learning Journal!
A great lesson on real-world connections, collaboration and communicating our learning in a very sophisticated way! Enjoy a great example here: https://goo.gl/qOjLke
By Lissa Blake @D60HolmesTech
We celebrate the 50th day of school by dressing up in poodle skirts, rolled up jeans and hula hoop competitions! I wanted to create something with each classroom to celebrate the 50th day integrating our technology throughout the entire school!
I took some time to research all the fun products that came about in the 1950s that our young students would know or care about still today! Each classroom picked the product out of a hat, we did some class research using a variety of tools and produced a short movie with our findings!
We learned about everything from PEZ dispensers and McDonald’s to Play-Doh and Frosted Flakes! The kids loved learning about all the fun products that they still may use today while we all learned a great new app, Puppet EDU (Shadow Puppet) to publish our research and share with our friends.
I took all the short videos, and put them together in iMovie with a 1950s soundtrack to complete the final project! We all got to celebrate together by watching the movie our whole school worked hard to create in our classrooms on the 50th day of school!
What an easy and fun way to bring our school community together, and learn a little along the way!
Enjoy our school video: https://goo.gl/p3YGHD
By Lissa Blake @D60holmestech