Lesson Plan Overview (Part II)
High School Anthropology
Standard 3
Students will demonstrate why and how ideas, attitudes, events, persons, movements, and documents have influenced humanity.
Objective 2
Identify selected periods or movements of historical change within and across cultures. http://www.uen.org/core/core.do?courseNum=6310
My lesson plan will give the students a better understanding of the impact of the eighth century on shaping world civilizations. The students will be given four world areas in which they can focus their research. They can look at either China, Western Europe, Africa, or Islam. This assignment is geared toward high school Anthropology students.
The students will be put in teams and required to make a five minute digital film presenting their research. A film will allow the students to use their creative energy in studying and presenting what can be referred to as “dry material”. Because the students are presenting their work to the class they will have a vested interest in learning the material. When I present the object of this assignment I will show the class an example of a film that I have made.
To help the students with their research I will give the teams different study guides so they will know the important points to touch upon in their film.
It will be vital that I spend a day lecturing on copyright laws. It is essential that the students only use music that is appropriate. I will go over the basics of flexible copyright law so the students understand where they can get their music and how they can use it. As most/all of the visual footage will be original, copyrighted visual materials won't be discussed as in depth, but any map or "borrowed" visual image will have to be given the proper citation.
The students will spend five weeks working on a group project in which they will present to the class what they have learned about their assigned topic.
• The first week, students will be placed in groups and choose the topic they want to research. Over the course of that week they will be required to do all the research for their film. At the end of that week the teams will turn in a synopsis of what their research has uncovered.
• Over the second week the teams are to write a script and storyboard ideas for their films. I will spend part of the lecture time discussing the nature and purpose of storyboarding. I will teach the students the finer points of using a Mini-DV camera and will begin filming over this second week. At the end of the week, students are required to turn in a script and their storyboards.
• The third week will be altogether consumed with filming. At the end of the week students will be required to submit a copy of some of the footage they have been filming.
• Over the fourth and fifth week the students will be using Adobe Premiere to edit their visual masterpieces. Much time will be devoted over the first three weeks to teach the students how to use the Adobe Premiere software. On the last day of the fifth week and the first day of the sixth week the teams will present their films.
The films will be graded primarily on how well they covered their assigned information. Creativity and technique will also be under scrutiny. Throughout the course of these five weeks I will present PowerPoint lectures equipped with the requisite pictures and animations that will serve as a basic framework for the students’ research.
Standard 3
Students will demonstrate why and how ideas, attitudes, events, persons, movements, and documents have influenced humanity.
Objective 2
Identify selected periods or movements of historical change within and across cultures. http://www.uen.org/core/core.do?courseNum=6310
My lesson plan will give the students a better understanding of the impact of the eighth century on shaping world civilizations. The students will be given four world areas in which they can focus their research. They can look at either China, Western Europe, Africa, or Islam. This assignment is geared toward high school Anthropology students.
The students will be put in teams and required to make a five minute digital film presenting their research. A film will allow the students to use their creative energy in studying and presenting what can be referred to as “dry material”. Because the students are presenting their work to the class they will have a vested interest in learning the material. When I present the object of this assignment I will show the class an example of a film that I have made.
To help the students with their research I will give the teams different study guides so they will know the important points to touch upon in their film.
It will be vital that I spend a day lecturing on copyright laws. It is essential that the students only use music that is appropriate. I will go over the basics of flexible copyright law so the students understand where they can get their music and how they can use it. As most/all of the visual footage will be original, copyrighted visual materials won't be discussed as in depth, but any map or "borrowed" visual image will have to be given the proper citation.
The students will spend five weeks working on a group project in which they will present to the class what they have learned about their assigned topic.
• The first week, students will be placed in groups and choose the topic they want to research. Over the course of that week they will be required to do all the research for their film. At the end of that week the teams will turn in a synopsis of what their research has uncovered.
• Over the second week the teams are to write a script and storyboard ideas for their films. I will spend part of the lecture time discussing the nature and purpose of storyboarding. I will teach the students the finer points of using a Mini-DV camera and will begin filming over this second week. At the end of the week, students are required to turn in a script and their storyboards.
• The third week will be altogether consumed with filming. At the end of the week students will be required to submit a copy of some of the footage they have been filming.
• Over the fourth and fifth week the students will be using Adobe Premiere to edit their visual masterpieces. Much time will be devoted over the first three weeks to teach the students how to use the Adobe Premiere software. On the last day of the fifth week and the first day of the sixth week the teams will present their films.
The films will be graded primarily on how well they covered their assigned information. Creativity and technique will also be under scrutiny. Throughout the course of these five weeks I will present PowerPoint lectures equipped with the requisite pictures and animations that will serve as a basic framework for the students’ research.
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