Production Name- Your Hometown Digital Scrapbook
Acadmic Standard: 1.3.4: Identify and describe physical features* and human features* of the local community including home, school and neighborhood.
- relative location: the location of a place in relation to another place or places
- physical features: geographic features that occur in nature, such as land and water forms, natural vegetation and wildlife
- human features: features created by humans, such as buildings, cities, roads and farms
Benefits:
Individual Responsibilty- Each student will be responsible for providing pictures of his or her idea of his hometown to accurately portray a personal idea of the cultural aspects of the area.
Group Responsibilty- Evalute each picture and how it is an accurate representation of the definition of a hometown.
This allows the students to make decisions as to what they would like to use to represent their living accomodations in their town. Students can use imaginative skills to create and use any type of image they would like to represent their town. They must communicate with group members and amongst classmates to evaluate the images and discuss their significance. Using basic public speaking skills, the students will convey their idea in the form of a scrapblog in front of their peers for evaluation. In order to creat such a scrapblog, the students will actively engage in asthetic reasoning in order to create an eye pleasing slideshow by making decisions as to the organization of the images and where they would be appropriately placed.
Disadvantages:
Students may disagree on the definition and representation of a hometown depending on where they are from and how they are raised. Nonetheless, this will lead to useful debate and discussion and perhaps open the children's minds to new ideas and cultures.
Instruct:
We would begin with basic lecture and discussion about indentifying physical features that define your local community as a hometown. Also, a short discussion about the generalities of a hometown will be necessary. No physical teaching tools are necessary for this portion of the lesson. However, it would be beneficial to have visual aides such as pictures and references to hometowns in relatable situations such a movies and other popular culture situations.
For the activity itself, the website for the scrapblog (scrapblog.com) will be needed as well as a computer lab or at least one computer per group to use for limited internet access and image production programs that may be used to alter their images approriately.
Evaluate:
The categories that were chosen to evalute the students on are based on what would accurately represent an aquired knowledge related to the given standards.
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