Colleen+Barlow's+Digital+Story+Lesson


 * Creating a Digital Story Lesson Plan **

** Synopsis: **
Students will work in cooperative groups to write a song/jingle that shows their understanding of the concepts learned in the central tendency unit. Each group will be assigned a different measure of center to create a voicethread to make a digital story. The digital stories will be viewed by the entire class and available on the class website for students to share with their families.


 * Standards Addressed: **

· Develop strategies for finding the median, mode, and smallest and largest element in a set of data. · Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats · Use median, mode, and range in data analysis. · Contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems
 * Demonstrates concepts and skills of data analysis
 * Understand and use technology systems.

** Procedure: **
Begin the lesson by modeling an episode of School House Rocks. YouTube has many of these available for free download. For this lesson, I recommend showing Math Rocks. After having your students view Math Rocks, ask your students what they learned or noticed? Explain to your students that they will be creating their own version of School House Rocks today and teaching others about central tendency. Divide students into heterogeneous groups and give each group one measure of central tendency to create a short song, poem or play that they will present through the use of voicethreads or flip cameras. Emphasize to the students that the digital story they create must teach the audience how to find the measure of center assigned to their group. Have the class create a rubric with you. The rubric should show the understanding of the concept assigned, creativity, participation and overall presentation. Then allow the students’ time to write their scripts. Have laptops with microphones, as well as flip cameras, available for the students today. Students will need to use this time to prepare their digital stories. If your class has not created a digital story in a while, it would be beneficial to review the how to’s before having the students get started. Allow students time to add the finishing touches and effects to their digital story. Students will present their digital stories to the class. All students in the class will fill out the class generated rubric for each group.
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** Differentiation: **
As every class is different and the needs are bound to vary. Here are a few options to assist the teacher in making sure every child’s needs are met. · Some topics are easier than others, the teacher may want to be selective in choosing which topic groups are assigned · Jingles are available, some students may benefit from having one already written for them · If technology is not available, students may act out the skit live

** Assessment: **
The rubric designed by the class will be used to formally assess the students understanding of the concept.