WeVIDEO
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Video Lesson Ideas:
1. Documentary: Students research a topic in detail, plan and shoot a documentary about content area material.
2. Video Resume: Students create a video resume of a book character or historical figure to present to a potential employer. The students can include mock interviews, samples of accomplishments, statements about goals and experience, and recommendations from teachers or previous employers.
3. Book Talk: Students create mock interviews of the characters in a book or a book’s author.
4. On the Job Videos: Students explore possible future careers. Have students go to job sites to conduct interviews with people in that profession. Students can video the job in action. Students can put together a video with information about their career choice.
5. Where were you When? Students interview community/family members to ask them where they were when certain historical events happened. (9/11, the wall fell down, JFK was shot, bombing of Pearl Harbor, landing on the moon, Mt. St. Helen blew, etc..)
6. Reenactment: Students reenact events of a story, major historical events, science concepts, math story problems, etc.
7. Community History: Students can use a video camera to document history in their own community. They can shoot footage of historical places, buildings, or objects in the community. They can conduct interviews with senior citizens, government officials, or other involved citizens.
8. Reality Show: Students depict the life of an historical era or other content area scenario.
9. Music Video: Students write a song or rap about content area material and create a music video of the performance. Students can write a song from scratch or use a well-known song and change the words to fit the material. (Tip: a Karaoke version of the song could be used to voice over the student-written words.)
10. Politics and Pictures: Students create a campaign commercial as they campaign for school office or create a mock campaign commercial for figures of study in class.
11. Time Travel: Students create a short video showing the past, present, future of their community, state, country, world… focus could be political, human rights, general, etc.
12. Public Service Announcement: Students create a public service announcement about a content related topic. (Examples- recycling; water pollution; tips for avoiding flu)
13. Two Sides of Every Story: Students create a video to tell the other side of a story. For example: Take a historical dispute/war, and have students present varying sides through video.
14. Alternate Ending: Students create an alternate ending to a book and act it out in video.
15. Famous Person Portrait (E-True Hollywood Story!): Students present a video biography of a famous person. Use quotes, reenactments, interviews.
16. Commercial/Advertisement: Students create a commercial as an assessment tool. Examples: Visit a place, visit the solar system…sell a planet…sell anything!
17. Mock Trial: Students create a scenario for a mock trial and record it on video. (Examples: Newton’s Laws; Distributive property)
18. Weather Forecast: Students stand in front of a map (or green screen with map picture inserted) and explain the weather in the regions of the United States.
19. Cooking Segment: Students create a cooking segment for a show using measuring tools and devices.
20. Animal Planet: Students explain pets/animals and how to care for them
2. Video Resume: Students create a video resume of a book character or historical figure to present to a potential employer. The students can include mock interviews, samples of accomplishments, statements about goals and experience, and recommendations from teachers or previous employers.
3. Book Talk: Students create mock interviews of the characters in a book or a book’s author.
4. On the Job Videos: Students explore possible future careers. Have students go to job sites to conduct interviews with people in that profession. Students can video the job in action. Students can put together a video with information about their career choice.
5. Where were you When? Students interview community/family members to ask them where they were when certain historical events happened. (9/11, the wall fell down, JFK was shot, bombing of Pearl Harbor, landing on the moon, Mt. St. Helen blew, etc..)
6. Reenactment: Students reenact events of a story, major historical events, science concepts, math story problems, etc.
7. Community History: Students can use a video camera to document history in their own community. They can shoot footage of historical places, buildings, or objects in the community. They can conduct interviews with senior citizens, government officials, or other involved citizens.
8. Reality Show: Students depict the life of an historical era or other content area scenario.
9. Music Video: Students write a song or rap about content area material and create a music video of the performance. Students can write a song from scratch or use a well-known song and change the words to fit the material. (Tip: a Karaoke version of the song could be used to voice over the student-written words.)
10. Politics and Pictures: Students create a campaign commercial as they campaign for school office or create a mock campaign commercial for figures of study in class.
11. Time Travel: Students create a short video showing the past, present, future of their community, state, country, world… focus could be political, human rights, general, etc.
12. Public Service Announcement: Students create a public service announcement about a content related topic. (Examples- recycling; water pollution; tips for avoiding flu)
13. Two Sides of Every Story: Students create a video to tell the other side of a story. For example: Take a historical dispute/war, and have students present varying sides through video.
14. Alternate Ending: Students create an alternate ending to a book and act it out in video.
15. Famous Person Portrait (E-True Hollywood Story!): Students present a video biography of a famous person. Use quotes, reenactments, interviews.
16. Commercial/Advertisement: Students create a commercial as an assessment tool. Examples: Visit a place, visit the solar system…sell a planet…sell anything!
17. Mock Trial: Students create a scenario for a mock trial and record it on video. (Examples: Newton’s Laws; Distributive property)
18. Weather Forecast: Students stand in front of a map (or green screen with map picture inserted) and explain the weather in the regions of the United States.
19. Cooking Segment: Students create a cooking segment for a show using measuring tools and devices.
20. Animal Planet: Students explain pets/animals and how to care for them