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Eagle 3 News Reporting! The Roman Empire has Collasped!


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Keywords: Flip Video Cameras
Subject(s): Drama, Journalism, Grammar, Spelling, English/Language Arts, Social Studies, Information Skills, Animation, Podcasting, Geography, Video, Art, History
Grades 6 through 8
NETS-S Standard:
  • Creativity and Innovation
  • Research and Information Fluency
  • Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making
  • Digital Citizenship
  • Technology Operations and Concepts
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School: Branch Elementary School, Branch, LA
Planned By: Karen Latiolais
Original Author: Karen Latiolais, Branch
Students will act as a news reporter covering the fall of the Roman Empire from the perspective of a modern TV reporter using flip cameras to make videos. In the video, the students will discuss the political, religous and social structures that made Rome an empire and reasons that the empire collasped through mock interviews with Roman citizens.


1. Students will draw a word web listing the factors that helped lead to the fall of the Roman Empire.

2. The students will prepare a script video discussing the key events, persons and places that were factors that helped lead to the fall of the Roman Empire.

3. Students will create a storyboard outlining their video.

4. Students will shoot a video discussing the factors that caused the fall of the Roman Empire.

Students will be assessed using a rubric.

Materials: Flip Video
Other Items: 2 Flip Video Camera, $150.00 each, total of $300.00