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Kentucky Academic Expectations Met by Video Production—Using Video Technology Across the Curriculum
Looking for ways to include video technology in your curriculum? Here are some suggestions of ways to use video production to address Kentucky Academic Expectations from the Kentucky Department of Education.
Academic Expectation 1.14: Students make sense of ideas and communicate ideas with music.
SAMPLE HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITY:
- Create a media presentation set to music representing the emotions and critical attributes of an event having social, political, cultural, and historical impact.
Academic Expectation 1.16: Students use computers and other kinds of technology to collect, organize, and communicate information and ideas.
SAMPLE ELEMENTARY ACTIVITIES:
- Use audio or video tape to collect an oral history of your community. Write a report using multimedia to compare the variations in story versions.
- Present the economic, social, political, and entertainment issues related to the Kentucky Derby.
- Using multimedia, reflect an opinion in the presentation as to the effects of these factors.
Academic Expectation 2.14: Students understand the democratic principles of justice, equality, responsibility, and freedom and apply them to real-life situations.
SAMPLE HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITY:
- Produce a “how-to” video on the voting process. Have the video shown on local access television stations.
Academic Expectation 2.16: Students observe, analyze, and interpret human behaviors, social groupings, and institutions to better understand people and the relationships among individuals and among groups.
SAMPLE ELEMENTARY ACTIVITY:
- Conduct a photo survey of conditions or situations in the community which are in need of attention (e.g., potholes in streets, vacant lots). Send the survey and a letter of explanation to a community leader.
Academic Expectation 2.17: Students interact effectively and work cooperatively with the many ethnic and cultural groups of our nation and world.
SAMPLE MIDDLE SCHOOL ACTIVITY:
- Investigate the inequities in the treatment of minorities in your local community. Develop a presentation about your findings.
SAMPLE HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITY:
- Create and present a video tour of the central states which examines the movement and settlement of diverse cultures throughout the country. Present your video to the class.
Academic Expectation 2.18: Students understand economic principles and are able to make economic decisions that have consequences in daily living.
SAMPLE ELEMENTARY ACTIVITY:
- Analyze and chart techniques that advertisers use to sell toys (e.g., Saturday morning cartoons, animated movie characters). Prepare a consumer awareness presentation.
Academic Expectation 2.20: Students understand, analyze, and interpret historical events, conditions, trends, and issues to develop historical perspective.
SAMPLE HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITIES:
- Develop and deliver an oral history presentation of your community based on interviews of local citizens. Present your product to a group of students.
- Create an interactive video showing people of today interviewing historical figures.
Academic Expectation 2.22: Students create works of art and make presentations to convey a point of view.
SAMPLE HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITIES:
- Collect family stories or history. Present a video production.
- Make a video or photographic presentation to the school board on design changes (inside or outside) needed in your school.
Academic Expectation 2.25: In the products they make and the performances they present, students show that they understand how time, place, and society influence the arts and humanities such as languages, literature, and history.
SAMPLE ELEMENTARY ACTIVITY:
- Record different individuals from your culture singing songs from their childhoods.
Academic Expectation 2.26: Through the arts and humanities, students recognize that although people are different, they share some common experiences and attitudes.
SAMPLE ELEMENTARY ACTIVITY:
- Record favorite family songs as performed by members of your family. Note differences in style, rhythm, and subject matter of songs.
Academic Expectation 2.27: Students recognize and understand the similarities and differences among languages.
SAMPLE HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITY:
- Observe and record speech patterns of diverse social groups and report the results.
Academic Expectation 2.28: Students understand and communicate in a second language.
SAMPLE MIDDLE SCHOOL ACTIVITY:
- Choose a favorite video and produce a “dubbed” clip of one scene. Lay the soundtrack over the picture and present for the class.
Academic Expectation 2.36: Students use strategies for choosing and preparing for a career.
SAMPLE ELEMENTARY ACTIVITIES:
- Use technology to investigate the educational and skill requirements of different careers. Present a visual to the class.
- Interview family, neighbors, and school personnel to identify the demands their careers make on their personal time. Decide how this might impact their family roles and pursuit of personal interests.
SAMPLE MIDDLE SCHOOL ACTIVITY:
- Gather data (e.g., income, working conditions, continuing education requirements) about a number of careers which interest you. Using the data, develop a multimedia presentation which shows how career choice impacts lifestyle.
SAMPLE HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITY:
- Develop a multimedia presentation depicting a new trend in an established career.
Academic Expectation 2.37: Students demonstrate skills and work habits that lead to success in future schooling and work.
SAMPLE MIDDLE SCHOOL ACTIVITIES:
- Work with a group to plan and produce a technologically innovative media presentation. Record conflicts which arise; note the mediation/facilitation skills used in resolving the conflicts.
- Plan and produce a videotape that shows a work team solving a work-related issue.
SAMPLE HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITY:
- Compile an inventory of unsafe behaviors exhibited by teenagers. Design and produce campaign materials (e.g., video presentation, brochures) to promote a change in those behaviors. Plan strategies and implement the campaign.
Academic Expectation 2.38: Students demonstrate skills such as interviewing, writing résumés, and completing applications that are needed to be accepted into college or other postsecondary training or to get a job.
SAMPLE MIDDLE SCHOOL ACTIVITY:
- Videotape and critique a mock interview.
SAMPLE HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITIES:
- Assess availability of mentoring opportunities within a chosen career. Participate in a mentoring program. Share what has been learned in an oral presentation, report, brochure, or video.
- Develop goals and plans for an opportunities search leading to a mock interview with a business, industry, or school person. Videotape the interview for evaluation.
Academic Expectation 5.1: Students use critical thinking skills such as analyzing, prioritizing, categorizing, evaluating, and comparing to solve a variety of problems in real-life situations.
SAMPLE ELEMENTARY ACTIVITY:
- Design a new multimedia learning center for your classroom. Develop a plan to implement the center and present it to your classmates.
SAMPLE MIDDLE SCHOOL ACTIVITY:
- Write, dramatize, and videotape a mystery with alternative endings. Select the most plausible ending and defend.
Academic Expectation 5.2: Students use creative thinking skills to develop or invent novel, constructive ideas or products.
SAMPLE MIDDLE SCHOOL ACTIVITY:
- Design a print or video advertisement for your favorite book or song.