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Leslie Fugate

Lesson Plan

Grade Level: 6th

Standards: WI ITLS standards

A.4.2 Identify and use common media formats

A.4.3 Use a computer and communications software to access and

transmit information

A.4.5 Use media and technology to create and present information

D.4.3 Respect intellectual property rights

Lesson Overview:

In collaboration with the 6th grade integrated skills teacher the students will be creatingbook trailers as part of their book report projects. This will be a multiple week activity

with lessons on Power Point, works cited, and sharing.

Objective:

Students will be using Power Point to create a book trailer about a book they haveread this year in class.

Students will add pictures, words, and sound. Students will add a works cited slide Students will save the slideshow as a video to be shared with the class and

displayed in the library

Lesson 1:

Introduction of Book Trailers

Students will come to the library and I will share a few book trailers with them. The

students will then discuss what elements they liked in the book trailers and if they peeked

their interest in the book. They will then pick the book they will eventually use to create a

book trailer. In the classroom the teacher will have them fill out a graphic organizer with

words or phrases that describe their book and will get the viewers attention.

Discuss elements of a slide show

Length of each image

about 3 seconds

Order of images

Amount of movement or transition

Size, shape and color of words and backgrounds

Amount of music or sound affects

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Lesson 2:

Students come to the library and learn about the Pics4Learning website. We will be using

http://www.pics4learning.com/for pictures their book trailer. We will talk about using

these sited because they are safe to use because they are copyright free. Students will also

be keeping track of the sites they use to find pictures and music in a Word document to beadded to the book trailer at the end in the credits section.

As the sites are shared with students demonstrate how to copy and paste the pictures into

their documents and then copy and paste the web address into a word document to keep

track of where the pictures came from. Also demonstrate how to save the pictures to a file

in the students personal drive so that they can go back and get the picture if they should

delete it by mistake. (Remind students to save often.)

Give students time to explore and start creating. In the last five minutes of class go around

to each student and have them show you what they have created. The teacher can assist

with this.

Lesson 3: Adding Sound

Use SoundzAbound http://www.soundzabound.com/

Demonstrate how to go in through Badgerlink. Explain that this site is royalty free and

expectable for educational use.

Demonstrate how to find music and save it and then how to add it to the powerpoint.

Lesson 4:

In this visit to the library the students will be working on their projects. Before they start

to work hold a short reminder session. Have a student tell how to:

Save and insert a picture Save a web address and insert into Word for works cited State why they need a works cited page How to insert sound

As students finish up show them how to save as a video file.

http://www.pics4learning.com/http://www.pics4learning.com/http://www.soundzabound.com/http://www.soundzabound.com/http://www.soundzabound.com/http://www.pics4learning.com/