sTOP MOTION sTUDIOS PAIRS UP WITH CULTURAL RELEVANCE TO BRING YOU:
A lesson plan focused on these main questions: Do you feel visible or invisible within or because of your culture or ethnicity? Is there a community you seek where you can find others to relate to and feel included with?
We will have students engage creatively and intellectually with these questions by creating a stop motion about themselves and their idea. Below you will find the lesson plan, teacher samples (some based on the lesson plan, and others just to showcase how the app can be used), worksheets, rubrics, you name it! Teacher samplesC H R I S T I N ' S
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Demos for the Project!ReflectionThis project has been quite the journey. Not necessarily an arduous journey, but having been used to working on my own for most of my projects as an art student, it was weird sharing the load. I'll admit, it was a bit freeing at first, knowing I only had one main thing to focus on, and seeing how my group members were responding to group text, I had decent confidence in their collective ability to carry their weight.
It was however a little stressful after I double checked the assignment requirements late Sunday night to make sure we didn't miss anything, and found that there a few things we still had to tackle. Thankfully most of my group members were available and on board to wrap everything up and make all the links and documents for our respective websites shared and available to use. It felt wonderful being a part of the team with almost everyone all in to "Get er done". From this whole experience I learned that since I prefer to have physical copies of assignment requirements, I should do a thorough read through and note taking before I start the assignment. Print it out if need be. Just don't go into the project with a vague sense of what to expect. Another thing I learned was that if my gut tells me that one of my group members isn't being proactive in their role then I should step in to push them into proactivity, or do the work myself so that the team overall succeeds and we aren't stressed last minute. I also recognized that being passive in a group project because someone else is expected to take charge of communication doesn't mean I shouldn't ask questions about how everyone is doing with their individual parts. As for how this experience influences me as a future teacher, I feel that it was great at reaffirming in my intuition about how I should shift my role in the group, and I hope that carries into me weighing in on my intuition when in the classroom on how to handle flexibility in the classroom based on students need. It also was a lesson in how group projects should have a larger emphasis on individual grades than collective, so that students are required to carry their own load and be responsible for if they don't. |