We Didn't Start the Fire

Introduce students to Windows Moviemaker and demonstrate how to add video, still pictures and music to a moviemaker project. Students will receive a guided handout of instructions, along with the words to Billy Joel's hit song, "We Didn't Start the Fire". Students will then begin to search for pictures and video clips representing the lyrics of the song which were great events in history. They may copy the same clips for the chorus each time it is played. The song is fast paced and will require a great deal of skill to get the timings of the pictures/videos to go along with the music. Students will then present their videos to the class. This lesson is a precursor to their next project, creating their own music video using Moviemaker.