The lesson is geared towards students who exhibit body/kinesthetic and visual/spatial intelligences. This lesson is centered on the Civil War with emphasis on the Battle of Gettysburg. The students will produce a multimedia project using HyperStudio. This project will be similar to an “information kiosk”. with engaging media to “tell a story” about the Battle of Gettysburg. The students have knowledge of Civil War events that took place before the War of Gettysburg. They are also familiar with HyperStudio, Windows, digital and video cameras.
The students will take a field trip to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania for the purpose of aquiring media (audio, video, digital still pictures, written information) to produce a multimedia project using HyperStudio. Students may not include more that four digital pictures and two quick times movies (video). Projects do not have to be all-inclusive (i.e. touching every point) on the War of Gettysburg and students will have significant leeway about what is included.
• Learn the impact the War of Gettsyburg had on the Civil War and American history
• Learn how to present an aspect of American history in an engaging fashion
Grade 10 students
• Content Area: Social Studies
• Teaching Method: Cooperative learning
• PC
• Hyperstudio
• Digital camera
• Video camera
• Analog to digital conversion software and hardware
• Scanner
• Zip drive and diskettes
• Students will be grouped in teams of four.
• Students will be given a brief review on the War of Gettyburg before the trip and will be given preliminary information about Gettysburg National Military Park.
• Students will go to Gettysburg National Military Park, break up in their teams, and acquire the media (digital pictures, video, literature) they need. The park comprises the Gettysburg battlefield. The park has 1,300 monuments, statues and markers, 3 observation towers, and 31 miles of marked avenues.
• After the field trip, students will do additional research using books, the Internet, encyclopedias, etc. for the textual information. They will also record their audio bites, if they plan on incorporating them with their projects, and telling about their experience on the field trip. They can also use audio from other sources, if desired.
• The students will create their projects in the computer lab and save their work on Zip disks.
Projects wil be evaluated on the student’s creativity, accuracy and presentation of media. After projects are completed, they will be presented in class by each group.
Questions
What is the purpose of the media being used? Does it make a point and/or make the project engaging?
Will someone learn more about the Battle of Gettysburg after viewing this multimedia project?
Related Activities
Each group could create a short skit (with historical content) based upon the Battle of Gettysburg.
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