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Keywords: Cooperation, Editing, Writing, Counselor, Character, PSA - Public Service Announcements, Flip Video, Posting, Website
Subject(s): Grammar, Spelling, Writing, Technology, Social Skills, Video, Drama
Grade 3
NETS-S Standard:
  • Creativity and Innovation
  • Communication and Collaboration
  • Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making
  • Digital Citizenship
  • Technology Operations and Concepts
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School: Westwood Elementary School, Friendswood, TX
Planned By: Barbara Gruener
Original Author: Barbara Gruener, Friendswood
Third graders will be able to advertise what their School Counselor does for them on a Public Service Announcement. Working in a small group of two or three, they will brainstorm to decide upon what skill (or program) they want to advertise.

Students will work together to write a script that they can act out as a skit to show what their School Counselor does to help them BE. For example: If a group picks Be A Bucket Filler, then their 20-to-30-second PSA will be a skit showing what Be A Bucket Filler means as well as why that's an important life skill.

Students will type the script into a word document, then practice their lines in the skit prior to filming so that they are prepared to make their commercial.

Students will go on location to film their skits during technology class. When they're not filming, students will practice being good audience members and watch the action on the set, whereby putting skills that they're learning from the School Counselor into action as well.

Students will edit their skits in the computer lab using iMovie. Students will record a message at the end of their PSA to summarize the gist of their skit and reinforce the lifeskill that they're advertising.

Students will collaborate with the School Counselor to post their PSAs online. They'll run live one per day and coincide with our BE celebration during National School Counseling Week.

Students will write reflections about the process as a follow-up to this activity.

Comments
This activity will be done through technology classes. Students work together to write their script using a word document in our computer lab. One flip camera will be required for each group of three students, so at least seven need to be on hand per class.
Cross-Curriculum Ideas
Students could use this same idea to film PSAs for all sorts of Social Studies issues. They could also use it in science to explain and/or advertise a concept they're studying. For example, if they're studying living animals, this lesson could be used to advertise for an Animal Shelter to get an abandoned cat or dog rescued.
Follow-Up
These PSAs will be posted on the school's website so that they're available online for anyone who visits our website. We will also link it to the Josephson Institute for Ethics' Character Educator so that their readers can access the lesson plan.
Materials: Hard Drives, Video Tools, Flip Video