21st Century Learning Statement:
- In order to prepare my students for 21st century learning, I will incorporate critical thinking skills and activities into my lessons that help students figure out life in the real-world around them. Implementing the 4 C's into every lesson can help educators make education more intentional and purposeful. This focus on creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking in the classrom is essential to prepare our learners for the future.
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STEAM Integration Signs
- These signs were a STEAM assignment that involved making your own Billboard. The objective was to choose a theme to use for their billboard and sketch their final design. Next, students were presented with materials to construct their billboard along with using a battery, copper wiring, and lightbulbs to give their Billboard some light!
Media Literacy - Character Projects
- This assignment allows students to use the Five Core Concepts and Five Key Questions of Media Literacy. This assignment helps students consider different types of media the purpose of the media or message.
- The Five Key Questions of Media Literacy include,
- Who created this message?
- What creative techniques are used to attract my attention?
- How might different people understand this message differently than me?
- What values, lifestyles, and points of view are represented in, or omitted from, this message?
- Why is this message being sent?
- The Five Core Concepts of Media Literacy include,
- All media messages are 'constructed'.
- Media messages are constructed using a creative language with its own rules.
- Different people experience the same media message differently.
- Media have embedded values and points of view.
- Most media messages are organized to gain profit and/or power.
- The Five Key Questions of Media Literacy include,
Sample Projects implementing Media Literacy, STEM & STEAM, and PBL
- Digital Storytelling
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Green Screen Video
- This is a Green Screen videoabout the 2016 Cleveland Indians baseball team. We made these videos during class with Camtasia Studios Software and recording device. The assignment was to choose a theme and write a script to make a Green Screen Video. We were also intstructed to choose a background for our video and it could be anything from a photo, to a slideshow, or even another video. Once we had our script and background ready, we videotaped behind the green screen and uploaded our videos into Camtasia Studios. We edited the green screen out of the picture and uploaded our background to our recording. There are many features available with Camtasia Studios using green screens and it would be easily to tailor towards any assignment.
Final Choice Project on Night by Elie Wiesel
Students choose an alternative way to show what they've learned from the class reading, Night by Elie Wiesel.
3D Model
Diaries/Letters
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Digital Storytelling
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Green Screen Video
- Students are setting up their "stage" for their Green Screen Video. The group was instructed to select a scene and a quote from the book to base their Green Screen Video off of. The students used a lime green bed sheet as their background and filmed their performance on an iPad. Then, the video was imported into Camtasia Studios and the students edited out the lime green background and began importing their chosen pictures and audio recording.
Physics: Slinky Lab
- This was a lab we did in our Science class based off of studying potential and kinetic energy with the use of plastic and metal slinkies of various sizes. The objective of this lab was for collaborative groups to design, build, and test a slinky track that included five total transformations. Students first drew their slinky track and were instructed to indicate where in the track kinetic and potential energy was the highest, and where the transformations occured. Next, students designed their slinky track with the resources made available. My group was able to quickly move past five transformations and really test our skills. We were so close on the 10th transformation! Check out the video of us finding whatever was available in the hallway to build our slink track.
Tower Project
- This was an interactive project that incorporated designing, building, and testing a straw tower. Students worked in collaborative groups (3-4) to build the tallest free-standing tower with the limited amount of resources made available. The objective was to see which tower could hold the most steel washers. I was lucky enough to be a part of the collaborative group that won the test of the steel washers (pictured above). The new record is 53 washers, check out the handout link below and see if your class can beat it!
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