Technology: Movie Maker Projects
These sites focus on how to integrate technology, specifically digital movies, in the classroom. Ideas, lesson plans, and samples of movie projects are included. An eThemes on Windows 2.1 Movie Maker is included.
Grades
- 3,
- 4,
- 5,
- 6,
- 7
Links
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Gettysburg Movie
This site uses movies to reflect on understanding of 3rd-5th grader students about the causes and important events of the Civil War. Examples of student works and ideas for a lesson plan are included.
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Apple Learning Interchange
This site contains projects and examples that teachers can use in their classrooms by using Apple software.
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Scholastic: Teacher's Guide to Making Student Movies
Watch examples of how one classroom teacher used movie making in her classroom. NOTE: This site includes ads.
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Using Movie Maker to Introduce Your Classroom
This project shows a way to showcase all of the children in your classroom.
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Kent State and the Vietnam Protest Movement
This site provides a lesson plan that integrates Movie Maker and other technologies with a history class.
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Digital Story Telling
This site walks you through the process of creating digital story telling. Read “Creating Whose Knocking” to understand the process. Samples of digital story telling are included.
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A Day in the Life
A classroom activity for 3rd-5th graders to use their knowledge and experience to tell about every day events through a movie.
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Animated Cartoons
A classroom activity for 3rd-5th graders to create an animated movie from pictures.
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eThemes Resource: Technology: Windows 2.1 Movie Maker
These sites help readers learn how to use Windows Movie Maker. Videos, step-by-step instructions, tips and tricks, and tutorials are included.
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