Video Projects

Connect video with active classroom assignments. Get students involved with their own video productions.

Get students physically active through video projects. Rather than simply recording a skit or ball game, think about engaging missions.

Entertain

• Visual Storytelling • Language Development • Creative Writing • Diary • Re-enactment • Speculative Project • Experiences•
• Goal: Convey a story, imagine a world, illustrate an idea
• The Wizard of Apps

Emote

• Show, Not Tell • Share Insights • Connect to Emotions • Activate a Poem • Demonstrate Traits • Convey Concepts•
• Goal: Express a feeling, illustrate an abstraction, move an audience
• Pier 21 Gateway to Hope

Inform

• Documentaries • Histories • Databases • Photo Essays • Represent Ideas • Categorize • Show Patterns • Share Results •
• Goal: Analyze information, explain causality, visualize ideas
• The Life of a Type 1 Diabetic

Instruct

• Tutorials • Directions • Demonstrations • Presentations • Conduct Experiments • Demonstrate Procedures •
• Goal: Show strategies, explain concepts, teach others
• How to Make Slime

Challenge

• Present Issue, Challenge Thinking • Visual Story Starters • Introduce Problems • Inspirational Examples • Extend a Story •
• Goal: Create dilemmas, envision problems, kickstart projects
• How to Make a Math Project

Engage

• News Programs • Visual Journal • Travel Logs • Yearbooks • Highlight Programs • Create Welcomes • Showcase Work •
• Goal: Announce events, document experiences, reflect on lessons
• News Programs

Provoke

• Public Service Announcements • Stir Interest • Influence Thinking • Impact Behavior •
  Goal: Arouse emotions, heighten awareness, change attitudes
• Keep America Beautiful PSAs
• Ad Council PSAs

Persuade

• Illuminated Term Papers • Advertisements • Book/Movie Trailers • Apply Advertising Techniques • Promote Action•
• Goal: Support arguments, show perspectives, convince others
• Basketball Promo

Watch how teens are Using the Flip Video in a High School Math Class (YouTube): Part 1 and Part 2. Add pipecleaners (Youtube) for some fun with graphs.

Learn more about video projects at Video Ventures.

Student Video Productions

Explore examples of student video productions.

Science

• How to Make Slime
• The Scientific Method

Math

• Graphing Stories from Dan Meyer
• How to Make a Math Project winner of the CSTMF.

English

• To Kill a Mockingbird: Then and Now
• SchoolTube Book Reviews

Social Studies

• No Vote, No Voice
• The Package
• Storycorps 
• The Foundation for a Better Life.

PE

• Basketball Promo
• PSAs: Smoking Claymation (Grade 7-8), Don't Smoke (Grade 7-8)
• PSAs: Unearthing Hope, Don't Be a Gutter Ball, 5210, Repercussion,Suicide, Health Pass, Second Hand Smoke (Grade 9-12), Texting while Driving (Grade 9-12),
• Documentaries: The Life of a Type 1 Diabetic (Grade 7-8), My Journey with Celiac Disease (Grade 7-8), 
• Concussions in Youth Football: Vimeo
• NeverBurn

World Languages

• Spanish: Vacations, Anuncios publicitarios, Introductions
• French: On the Metro,

Library

• I Need My Library 
• I'm Just a Book
• Joyce Valenza's Library Videos
• Sweet Primary Sources
• Why I Need My High School

Family, Consumer Health

• Music Videos: Crank Dat Dental Floss
• Documentaries: The Life of a Type 1 Diabetic (Grade 7-8), My Journey with Celiac Disease (Grade 7-8), Documentaries: Vimeo, Breaking News: the End of Civility

Video Planning

Use web-based or app-based tools for storyboarding:

• Web-based
  • Primary Access
• App-based
  • Storyboards is a great tool for creating storyboards. It helps a writer visualize the characters, plot, sequencing, setting, and action of the story.
  • i-Prompt Pro is a teleprompter that can be used for all kinds of writing projects. Writing on a teleprompter is a form of writing intended to be read aloud like poetry or a speech.

Try It!
Select some aspect of video production or use. Examine the resources provided and design an active classroom activity.

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