Lesson plan fifteen

Creating film/ putting projects together

(Friday-Monday 3
rd
& 4
th
Week)

Objectives: Students will combine all their small projects and produce a
mini film on their New Deal program. Students will plan and design the
plan of how their mini movie will play. Students will inform their audience
on their New Deal program.

Common Core Standards

WHST Writing Standards for literacy in history/Social Studies, Science, and
technical subjects 6-12

2. Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of
historical events, scientific procedures/experiments, or technical processes.
Technology Standards.
b. Develop the topic with well-chosen, relevant, and sufficient facts,
extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and
examples appropriate to the audiences knowledge of the topic.

6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and
update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of
technologys capacity to link to other information and to display information
flexibly and dynamically.


Technology Standards

2. Communication and collaboration
b. Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences
using a variety of media and formats.

4. Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision-making
b. Plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project
d. Use multiple processes and diverse perspectives to explore alternative
solutions.

6. Technology operations and concepts

a. Understand and use technology systems

b. Select and use applications effectively and productively

c. Troubleshoot systems and applications

d. Transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies


Material needed for the
lesson plan
iPad
App iMovie
App GarageBand
App 8mm
Groups small
projects


Teacher preparation/Instruction Students activity /assignments
Step 1: Teacher will instruct the
groups of their mini movie projects.
This is the material they need to have
in their mini New Deal Movie. They
will have 5 to 10 minutes to show
their mini movie.

1) Title for the film
2) Group poster
3) Group song
4) Group poem
5) Graphs with the similarities
explain how it affected the
economy, unemployment and
society.
6) Skit of their New Deal program.
They need to inform the audience
Step 1: Students will listen to
instruction and make sure they have
these six projects in their mini New
Deal program movie. Students mini
movie should be between 5 to 20
minutes long.

Step 2: Students will send one
person from their groups to gather
the iPads. They will than gather all
their projects.

Step 3: Students will use the app
pages or paper to brainstorm.
Students will discuss how they will
organize their film.

of their program.
7) Teacher will give students the
whole class period to plan their
mini movie and start putting it
together.
8) This lesson plan will take two
days to complete.

Step 2: Teacher will instruct one
person in the group to gather the
ipads. Teacher than instruct the
student to gather all their projects.

Step 3: Teacher will instruct the
students to use app pages or paper to
brainstorm on how they will create
their film. They will also discuss
how they will organize their entire
projects within their film.
a. Teacher will meet with all the
groups and guide and assists
groups with their films.
Step 4: Teacher will instruct students
publish their mini movie through
iMovie and be ready to present in
class.
Step 4: Student will publish their
mini movie on iMovie and get ready
to present on Monday.

Rubric for group work

1 2 3 4 5
One person
is doing all
the work.
Others in the
group are
distracted.
Two people
are doing all
the work.
Three
students of
the group are
uninterested.
Three
people in the
group are
doing all the
work. The
others in the
groups are
giving their
opinion but
not helping.
All students
are working
together but
are only
discussing.
They have
started the
brainstorming.
All students
are working
together. They
are discussing
and
brainstorming.
They have a
plan of how
their film will
play.