NOW Classrooms, Grades 6-8. Meg Ormiston

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      Learning goal:

      I can create a simple movie using digital images and video clips.

       Novice: Creating Simple Movies

      Moviemaking gives students a creative way to show their learning, providing them with a collaborative process that requires them to use their language skills to show what they know and establish their voice. For example, students can use a moviemaking app and real-time weather data to report on weather conditions in a way that reflects their understanding of weather patterns. Students can include images of their own work, video clips, sounds, music, and other media, and they also have the option to narrate their movie. You should expect grades 6–8 students to be able to independently create a movie that demonstrates classroom learning using age-appropriate images, text, and music.

      Students can use several video-creation apps, including iMovie (www.apple.com/imovie), Animoto (https://animoto.com), and Adobe Spark (https://spark.adobe.com), to make movies. For this lesson, we recommend WeVideo (www.wevideo.com), a website and app that allows users to create movies with pictures, video clips, text, and voice recordings. The free version limits students to two minutes of video, but you also have options for paid classroom and school subscriptions. To use WeVideo, students need to sign up for a WeVideo account using a school G Suite email address or another school email address.

       Process: Recording a Simple Video

      Use the following six steps to have students record and share a simple video project.

       TECH TIPS

       The Support section of the WeVideo website (www.wevideo.com/support) offers a Getting Started Video series that you can use to get yourself and your students up to speed with how to use the website.

       Saved video files can get very large and can take up valuable space on students’ devices. You can avoid this problem by having students save their videos to a cloud-based storage platform, such as Google Drive (www.google.com/drive), Microsoft OneDrive (https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-us), or Dropbox (www.dropbox.com).

      1. Have students select a moviemaking app for their project. If instead you choose one app for the entire class to use, make sure you introduce students to its user interface and basic features and functions.

      2. Prompt students to start a new video project. Some moviemaking apps will ask students questions about their project before they begin making their movie. For example, an app might ask students to choose a template, title, or description.

      3. Students record their video or find images to insert into their project to create a video.

      4. Students should insert elements they want to use into their project. This can include importing images, previously recorded video, and audio, like narration or background music. Students use the app to drag elements into the project and arrange them in the project timeline tracks to form a complete movie.

      5. Have students save and export or share their work. Most video-creation apps allow you to directly export projects to popular video-hosting services like YouTube (www.youtube.com), WeVideo (www.wevideo.com), and Vimeo (https://vimeo.com). Students can also share their videos to their class’s LMS for peer viewing.

      6. Have students share a link to their published video with you and the rest of the class.

       Connections

      You can apply this lesson to different content areas in the following suggested ways.

      • English language arts: Ask students to make a video where they act as a book critic reviewing specific aspects of a text they read. Elements of this project can include a video of themselves speaking as the critic, audio narration, and author interviews.

      • Mathematics: Have students make a commercial or ad-pitch video to sell an invented product. This project should include financial content, such as the cost to produce, sales cost, and profit.

      • Social science: Instruct students to make a video of themselves acting out or recreating an event in history. For example, a student might use a green-screen app to film him- or herself talking about modern immigration issues in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

      • Health: Have students make a video with them acting as nutrition specialists working with clients to explain proper nutrition to them.