After two years of editing student films myself, I handed the equipment over to students and they had the opportunity to write, photograph, direct, and edit their own short films.
For our first project of the year, we addressed second grade California History-Social Science Standard:
2.4 Students understand basic economic concepts and their individual roles in the economy and demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills.
2. Understand the role and interdependence of buyers (consumers) and sellers (producers) of goods and services.
Students brought in and analyzed existing cereal boxes for “persuasion” and “gimmicks” then created their own cereal boxes and commercials to go with them.
Thank you to Mary Hahn of Roscomare Road Elementary for the cereal box unit
Winner: 2006 Digital Voice Award from Los Angeles County Office of Education for Social Science
Winner: 2006 Video in the Classrom (VIC Award) for Best Independent Student Project
Created by: Second Grade Students, Mathew Needleman
Software used: iLife
Scaffolding for English Language Learners:
By using a linguistic frame (see below), students learned to use the words gimmick and persuade in relation to the cereal boxes.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Buy My Cereal, Please!
