MultiMedia Tools

Lesson Idea Name: The Water Cycle Movie

Content Area: Science
Grade Level(s): 3
Content Standard Addressed: S4E3. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to demonstrate the
water cycle.

Technology Standard Addressed: Digital Citizen

Selected Technology Tool:

☒ Movie (list application): iMovie
☐ Audio (list application):
☐ Other: (list)
URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable):

Bloom’s Taxonomy Level(s):

☐ Remembering ☐ Understanding ☐ Applying ☒ Analyzing ☐ Evaluating ☐ Creating

Levels of Technology Integration (LoTi Level):

☐ Level 1: Awareness ☐ Level 2: Exploration ☐ Level 3: Infusion ☒ Level 4: Integration
☐ Level 5: Expansion ☐ Level 6: Refinement

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) This activity actively enhances student learning by incorporating all three
principles within UDL. It activates the engagement stage by allowing students to foster collaboration and
community. The students do this when they form together to make their groups and work together in order
to make and edit their presentation. The representation stage is enforced when it offers ways of customizing
the display of information. This occurs when the students are able to choose what they want to use to
represent their stage of the water cycle and can create it anyway they want to. The final stage of UDL, action
and expression, is represented when the students have to strategically plan out the best way to represent
their information. While there are multiple ways to do it they need to find out how to get it across effectively
in a video format.

Lesson idea implementation: The teacher will make the video in order to create a flipped classroom that will
be posted on the classroom blog. The students will be instructed to watch video and begin learning about the
different parts of the water cycle. After watching the video the students will be asked to choose their favorite
part of the cycle and to begin thinking of ways they could represent their chosen part in real life. Once the
students arrive back in class the next school day they will be asked to get with a group of two or people who
like the same part of the cycle and to make a video of them representing it with common house hold
materials. The teacher will provide multiple tools for them to use to create the cycle and the students will be
allowed to choose whatever they would like to use.
The students will be assessed by how well the created the scene. If they created it and it properly
showed the part of the cycle they were trying to represent they will get a high grade and the teacher will
know they are beginning to understand the material. However, if the scene they make within the video does
not show their part of the cycle properly the teacher will know that they need to be taught the information in
another way. For the students who need and advancement, they will be able to create more videos on the
other parts of the water cycle, but students who have not grasped the concept yet will be able to do
interactive online learning in order to try and understand. Feedback will given through notes from the teacher
on a rubric.
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Importance of technology: By giving the students the opportunity to use this multimedia tool, it allows them
to further their technology skills and to also gain a better knowledge of their project by re watching it and
editing it. While this project could be done without the tool, the students would miss out on learning how to
use a video editing software and they would also not be able to re see it and reenact it as easily. By recording
it students are able to just represent the cycle one time and then can just replay the video in order to see it
happen again.

Internet Safety and Student Privacy: Some issues that may revolve around this lesson involving internet
safety and student privacy is that their faces may show up on the video and they would be using an online
editing tool. In order to minimize the risks that come with these, the videos would not be posted online and
will instead be kept in a drobox folder on the teachers school laptop. This way the students identities and
information are not released to anyone except those in the class. I will also be explaining this on the
classroom newsletter so that when the parents find out about their students making videos they will already
know that their safety is being taken into consideration. The students will also be following copyright laws
since they will be acting in their video and not using any pictures or videos made by anyone else.

Reflective Practice: After designing this lesson idea, I feel that it has positively impacted student learning
since it gave them the opportunity to learn how to create and edit a video and also allowed them to work
with their peers and be creative. To further extend this lesson I would create a Kahoot!, and a Nearpod
presentation to further extend their knowledge on the different parts of the water cycle.

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