Here's to Our Heroes - Reading Saves the Day!

Objective: The primary objective of this is to get students to recognize community heroes (doctors, firemen, policemen, military persons, etc.) by interviewing them, videotaping them, photographing them and writing a piece that will be uploaded with the pictures and video to http:..www.myhero.com

Georgia Perfromance Standards include: writing skills at all levels;
ELA1W1, ELA2W1, ELA3W1, ELA4W1, ELA5W1, ELA2W2, ELA2W2, ELA3W2. ELA4W2, ELA5W2. In addition, the students will incorporate National Technology Standards from ITSE in all areas; creativity and innovation, communication and collaboration, research and information fluency, critical thinking, problem solving and decision making, digital citizenship and technology operations and concepts.

Day 1: The media specialist and the classroom teacher will introduce the students to choosing a community hero. The students will brainstorm a list of community heroes as the teacher or media specialist write the various people on the smartboard. Students will then tell what makes these people heroes while it is written on the board next to that person. Students will be instructed to choose a person from the community and come up with questions that they will ask their person as part of their project.
Day 2: Students will come in with the person they have chosen and their questions. The teacher and the media specialist will help students edit and revise their questions prior to the interview.
Day 3, 4, 5: Students will spend time questioning their person. They will also take pictures of them and videotape the person.
Day 6-10: The teacher and the media specialist will assist the student with their project. When the project is finished the media specialist will upload the projects to http://myhero.com

Materials needed: several flip cameras, several digital cameras and USB drives for students to save their work.