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These are ideas on ways to use video with your classes. Some would require editing and others would not. They're broken down by grade level, but keep in mind that most ideas are easily adaptable from one grade level to the next. I use Pinnacle because that's what's available in my lab, but these ideas should work in any editing program. Windows Movie Maker comes with most computers that have WINXP. It's a simple, easy-to-use program for editing video. Kindergarten and First Grade Videotape the students holding the flags in an appropriate manner. Tape them repeating the Pledge of Allegiance. Allow them to view the video or share the video with other students, schools, or countries (penpals or email pals). Let students record themselves saying their addresses and phone numbers. If possible, have parents record this information so that students can listen to both recordings over and over. This would be a good activity to do during open house or other family night. Let children act out certain skits and photograph them. For example, one picture of a student running in the hall and another picture of a student walking obediently; or, one picture of a student going in the wrong lunch door, causing someone to drop a tray, and another picture of a student going in the right lunch door. Talk about the pictures and what has happened in each one. Make the correlation that rules keep bad things from happening. Make the pictures into a class book or video of rules and consequences. Talk about the qualities and positive character traits. Videotape students acting out these good traits. Keep a digital camera handy to snap pictures when you catch students displaying these traits. Watch the videos and look at the pictures and have discussions about them. Video negative traits (a student pushing another student or taking crayons away). Watch the video and talk about alternative actions that should have been taken. If you have a classroom pet, take pictures of the proper way to feed, water, and clean the pet's cage. Take a video of the right way to hold the pet. Post these pictures at the pet's cage or aquarium as a reminder of the right way to care for living things. Upper Grades Set up a situation in which you are going to videotape students. Have a series of questions ready to ask them (the questions can be on any topic you choose). As you ask them questions and videotape them, stop them mid-sentence and say something like, "I'm sorry, you don't have the right to say that." Continue the interview and a few minutes later, do the same thing. Use this tape to show the frustration that would come if our freedom of expression was limited. Have students brainstorm and create a Poster in Word to illustrate other freedoms of expression (music, dress, etc.). Have students make a short video with skits of students being disrespectful, and skits of the same situation with people showing the proper respectful actions. Have the students in the skits do "interviews" on tape as to why rules are important. Have students do more "interviews" explaining why they think it is important to stay informed (read newspapers, etc.), vote, volunteer, and communicate with public officials. View all of the skits and interviews and have students write reflections and further thoughts on what they saw and heard. Videotape or get a student (and parents) to videotape the changes of water from solid to liquid to gas. Share the video with the rest of the class.
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These pages created by Lori Miller, copyright 2004. Last updated May 24, 2007. |
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These pages created by Lori Miller, copyright 2004. Last updated May 24, 2007. |