Below is the finished product of the video presentation that my grade 3/4's developed with me. This video was scripted from their grant winning book for the BP A+A for energy grant. The students scripted, directed and produced this film with my help. This project advocates my integration of KSA #10, "The functions of traditional and electronic teaching / learning technologies." Students were very involved in the process of creating this video, it exposed them to concepts like camera angles, transitions, characters etc. They used programs like I-movie and used I-pads to film this video. They were aware of the message that they were trying to send to their audience and that message went into the decisions that they made about the filming process through scripting and filming.
Below is an artifact supporting KSA 1 "How contextual variables affect teaching and learning". This artifact is from my TA's feedback during a scripting lesson for the video project that we created. The class was exhausted in the afternoon after their swimming lessons in the morning, I could tell that I was losing engagement and decided to change from my lesson plan to another activity that could better engage them in their tired state.
When teaching the anatomy of the ear I used several different resources to help students remember the parts and their places. These varied from colour coded visual aids, to video's online that incorporate auditory and visual aspects. I also had the class complete an activity where they had to arrange their classmates/parts of the ear into the correct order inside the brain. Once arranged each part of the ear explained their job in moving sound to the brain. This dynamic approach to the same outcome is an artifact for KSA #5 that "all students can learn, albeit at different rates in different ways." Because anatomy and order can be a tricky concept I wanted to appeal to all of the learning types to ensure that each student had a valuable learning experience to link this information to. Below is the video and the poster that I shared with the class about how sound travels through the ear.