GAME+PLAN-+Digital+Storytelling

Lesson 3- Digital Storytelling:


 * Groups of Native Americans **
 * Grade Level: 5th Grade Social Studies **
 * Related Lesson- Groups of Native Americans **
 * Unit- Native Americans ****Way of Life **
 * Description: **The students will watch a video featuring different types of music by Native Americans. **Objective: **Students will create a rap song or skit to complete their unit on Native Americans and post to the class Wiki, showcasing everything they have learned throughout the unit.
 * Louisiana ****Content Standard **
 * The World in Spatial Terms: **
 * 4 ** Locate major landforms and geographic features, places, and bodies of water/waterways on a map of the United States


 * United States ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">History **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">27 **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Identify and describe indigenous cultures and groups that existed in the Americas at the beginning of European exploration
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">28 **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Describe the trade that connected the Americas, Western Europe, and Western Africa prior to 1620, including the origins of the West Africa-European trade connection
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">29 **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> Compare and contrast Africans, Europeans, and Native Americans converging in the Western Hemisphere after 1492

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">-Communication and Collaboration <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">-Research and information fluency <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">-Critical thinking, problem solving, and decisions making <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">-Digital citizenship <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">-Creativity and Innovation
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">ISTE NETS-S **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">- **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Technology Operations and Concepts


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Action: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">This activity is completed after the initial unit on European Exploration is covered in the classroom as a whole group.


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Instructional Activities **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">(3 blocks of one hour)
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Show a video of the different indigenous cultures and groups by location that existed in the beginning of European exploration **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Materials **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: Laptop, Activboard screen, [|www.youtube.com]
 * 2) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Discuss the difference types of music of the Native American people.
 * 3) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">The teacher will go step-by-step using Activboard to show students how to set up a page on the class Wiki.
 * 4) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">After getting into their groups the students will set up a page on the class Wiki that the teacher has already created.
 * 5) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">They will work collaboratively to decide the name of their page and if they want to do a rap song or skit which will be videoed and downloaded to the Wiki.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">There will be the same six groups of four that will work together to create their rap or skit video. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Materials **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: paper, clothing from home, digital camera (provided by the teacher), and computer.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Students will get their final products from the first two lessons and put them in front of them for a point of reference. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Materials **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: Artifacts box, maps, computer to watch their voicethread.
 * 8) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Students will create their rap or skit and when finished they will present it to the class for recording and presentation purposes.
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Using www.wikispaces.com, the students will download their video to the class page so everyone can see it.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Ongoing Assessment **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">The students will be observed during their group work and given a participation grade. They will also be assessed by their final product of their rap or skit.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Backup Plan **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Students will present their rap or skit to the class, if the computers are not working. They will still take the pictures and download them at another time or the teacher will download them from home. If a student is uncomfortable participating in this activity they will be allowed to suggest other activities to be videoed but that activity must be approved by the teacher. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Lesson **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Reflections and Notes: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Students will be able to understand the importance of people working together in the world and in their classroom to obtain the goods they need for survival. They will also grasp the concept of how different locations provide different resources for groups of people to survive and why different tribes settled in different areas. Students will show a day in the life of their Native American group through their rap or skit that they create.