Learning with CD & DVD PictureShow

Useful Internet Resources

• Life’s Top 100 People
• Students should use any of the major search engines to collect text-based, graphic, photograph, audio and video resources regarding the parson they are studying.

Materials

• Materials for teacher’s lessons on selected historical figures
• Print, multimedia, and Internet research resources
• Computer, word processor, Internet access and PictureShow software
• Video Storyboard templates
• Blank CDs/DVDs
• Presentation equipment

McREL National Content Standards Addressed

Language Arts - Writing

• Std. 4 – Gathers and uses information for research purposes
  Level III, Benchmarks 2-6 Level IV, Benchmarks 1-7

History- Historical Understanding

• Std. 2 – Understands the historical perspective
  Level III, Benchmarks 1-6 Level IV, Benchmarks 1-5

Procedures and Approximate Times for Completion

1. The teacher gives lessons on a variety of historical figures. (2 hours)
2. Student teams conduct their research. (1- 1 ½ hours)
3. Students synthesize their research into a storyboard for their multimedia slideshow.(2 hours)
4. Students incorporate their resources into a DVD PictureShow slideshow, and create a narration track. (2 hours)
5. The teams present their multimedia reports to the class and answer any questions. (About 5 – 7 minutes per team)

Assessment
The following site has a wide variety of rubrics that you can look at in order to help you design a rubric that will meet your needs.

• Select from a Variety of Rubrics from MidLink Magazine at http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/ho.html
• You may also want to have your students reflect upon their projects and address the following in writing:
  • How will what you learned from your research and different team reports influence your perspective on notable people of this day and age?
  • Which person you heard reported on did you think had them most impact on history, and why?