I've Got Issues

This culminating lesson is great for almost any unit taught at grade levels 4-12. Students take one class period to capture photographs for use in a 30-60 second issue spot (similar to a commercial). The goal is to find approximately 10 photos that represent a theme or mnemonic for an important concept in the unit. Then students will develop the sequence, titles, and narration to make this into an issue spot with the goal of expressing visually and verbally an important concept in the unit.

Day 1 and 2 - Working in groups students are given the goal to choose an issue or difficult concept in a unit of study. Storyboards are completed to plan issue spot. Students use digital cameras to capture photos which depict graphic representations of an important concept or issue from the unit. For optional homework students can take additional photos to add to the project.

Day 3 - Students download the photos from the camera, place them into a movie program such as MovieMaker, add titles and narration and save as a movie file.

Day 4 - Students show their spot and class members evaluate how the spot reinforced, related to, expressed the concept/information/issue.