Freedom Rocks Video

Freedom Rocks
Objectives:
Students will apply concepts learned during the study of the Constitution and Veteran's Day.
Students will increase reading fluency using self-created Poems for Two Voices for fluency practice.
Students learned how to use a flip video cameras as they film each other.
Students with teacher help will use iMovie to create a class video of why "Freedom Rocks"
Lesson time frame: 3 or 4 class periods
1. Students created Poems for Two Voices in groups of two or three students as a follow up activity after lessons on the Constitution and Veteran's Day.
2. Students practiced their poems before being filmed increasing their fluency in reading.
3. Students filmed each other's poems using the flip camera.
4. Students with the help of a teacher used iMovie to merge the individual poems into a class video. (Moviemaker could easily be used, I used Moviemaker before I bought my Mac)
5. Students shared these poems with their families on Moodle in a closed password protected Internet site. Could be saved as a video and shared via a thumb drive.

Poems for Two Voices expresses two different points of view using higher levels of thinking.