ANTICIPATORY SET

• In order to introduce the students to the assignment and get them excited, I will
introduce a wake up activity where there will be photos of one U.S. event from every
decade of 1900-2010 and the students will have to identify them and put them in
chronological order.

STANDARDS
21st Century Learning Standards
• Standard 1 - Inquire, think critically, and gain knowledge
-1.2.2 Demonstrate confidence and self- direction by making independent choices in the
selection of resources and information
-1.3.1 Respect copyright/ intellectual property rights of creators and producers
-1.3.3 Follow ethical and legal guidelines in gathering and using information.
• Standard 2 - Draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new
situations, and create new knowledge
-2.2.4 Demonstrate personal productivity by completing products to express learning
• Standard 3 - Share knowledge and participate ethically and productively as members of
our democratic society
-3.1.2 Participate and collaborate as members of a social and intellectual network of
learners
-3.1.6 Use information and technology ethically and responsibly
-3.3.5 Contribute to the exchange of ideas within and beyond the learning community
• Standard 4 - Pursue personal and aesthetic growth
-4.1.8 Use creative and artistic formats to express personal learning

Information Power
• Standard 1 - The student who is information literate accesses information efficiently and
effectively
• Standard 3 - The student who is information literate uses information accurately and
creatively
• Standard 8 - The student who contributes positively to the learning community and to
society is information literate and practices ethical behavior in regard to information and
informa- tion technology

NYS Learning Standards

• SS Standard 1
-Distinguish between near and distant past and interpret simple timelines
-View historic events through the eyes of those who were there, as shown in their art,
writing, music, and artifacts
• MST Standard 2
-Use a variety of equipment and software packages to enter, process, display, and
communicate information into different forms using test, tables, pictures, and sound
-Access needed information from printed media, electronic databases and community
resources
-Demonstrate the ability to evaluate information
OBJECTIVES
• Students will:
-Learn about intellectual property and the importance of public domain media
-Gain technological knowledge in Animoto, a web 2.0 tool
-Use timelines to find appropriate media for their projects

• For the future the students will:

-Learn to respect intellectual property rights, which will help on future assignments
throughout their schooling and careers as well as teach them to protect their own media
from other users
-Learn to adapt to new technology quickly and carry over previous technological
knowledge, which will be useful as technology continues to advance

TEACHING
• This project will take five class periods
-Day 1: review researching, teach about public domain media
-Day 2: students begin looking for relevant events and photos
-Day 3: teach the process of creating an animoto video, students finish looking for events
and photos
-Day 4: students create animoto videos
-Day 5: animoto presentations

• Needed information
-Review of information gathering
-How public domain works
-Animoto video creation process
-Which decade each student is to work on

• Materials, Equipment and Resources

-Paper timeline for students to organize their events
-Print and online resources for finding relevant events and photos
-Computers to access databases and Internet
-Databases and Internet to find events and photos
-Animoto software download

• To teach students, I will:

-Review the information gathering process
-Show them public domain photo options, such as Flickr's creative commons
-Teach them how to save a number of photos to the computer
-Create a short animoto video to demonstrate the step by step process

GUIDED PRACTICE
• To stay abreast of the work, I will:
-Check paper timelines to ensure that students are finding relevant events
-Check downloaded images to see that they are public domain media and correspond to
the appropriate decade
-View animoto accounts during the production process

• If assistance is needed, I will:

-Answer any questions to the best of my ability
-Attempt to explain the project in a different way that may make more sense to a specific
student
-Teach students how to use the animoto help feature
-Send students in another direction if they hit research roadblocks
-Allow students who finish early to assist others

INDEPENDENT PRACTICE
• After receiving instructions and some training, students will need to use print and/or
electronic resources to find events from their assigned decade to fill in their timeline.
They will then use public domain photo websites to locate desired photos and create an
animoto video with these photos to visually demonstrate important events from U.S.
history.

CLOSURE
• Students will present their animoto videos to the class
• I will upload the best projects to the LMC website or wiki so others can see the great
work going on in the LMC

EVALUATION & REFLECTION

Partially
ACTIVITY Exemplary Proficient Incomplete POINTS
Proficient
12 points
Multiple 8 points
4 points 0 points
types of Proper
Use of Improper One improper
proper resources are
Resources resources are resource is
resources are accessed for
During accessed for accessed for
accessed for relevent
Research information information
relevent information
and media. and media.
information and media.
and media.
6 points
4 points 2 points
Music stirs a 0 points
Music stirs a Music is ok,
rich Music is
rich emotional and not
emotional distracting,
Sound/Emotion response that distracting,
response that inappropriate,
somewhat but it does not
matches the OR was not
matches the add much to
story line used.
story line. the story.
well.
18 points 12 points 6 points 0 points
Images
More than 12 At least 12 At least 12 Fewer than 12
 images of the images not of images not of images.
highest the highest the highest
quality that quality OR quality that
demonstrate that AND
events in the demonstrate demonstrate
given time events not in events not in
period. the given time the given time
period. period.
6 points 4 points 0 points
2 points
Project is Project is Project is
Project is
Timeliness completed completed incomplete
complete but
and turned in and turned in and turned in
turned in late.
early. on time. late.

• I will have students fill out a reflection survey asking for their favorite/least favorite
part of the assignment, parts that could be improved, things they could have done better,
ideas for other/similar projects