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 * Activity #** ** 3: Photo Essay **

__ Timeframe __:
 * ====4-5 classes====

__ Appropriate Digital Learning Resource __:


 * ====Windows Live Movie Maker allows students to insert pictures, add visual effects and music to create their own personal movie. Word is a program which allows students to write documents on a computer and save the documents onto their hard drive.====

__ Material List __ :


 * ====Camera, computer, Windows Movie Maker, Microphone and Word document.====

__ Curriculum connections __ :

Language arts:

 * ====1.1 Explore and discuss their thoughts, ideas, and experiences and consider those of their peers====
 * ====1.3 Explain personal opinions and respond to the questions and opinions of others====
 * ====9.1 Create written and media texts, collaboratively and independently, in different modes (expressive, transactional, and poetic) and in a variety of forms====
 * ====9.2 Recognize that particular forms require the use of specific features, structures, and patterns====
 * ====10.3 Use technology with increasing proficiency in writing and other forms of representing====

Science:

 * ====300-1 Compare the external features and behavioural patterns of animals that help them thrive in different kinds of places====

__ Small rational/teaching approach __ : ====The students as a class will take a fieldtrip to The Fluvarium where they will go on a nature walk. Students will be put into groups of three or four and each group will be given a digital camera. As the students progress on their nature walk they will use the camera to take pictures of different habitats which they encounter along their walk, or of any different information which they may see about animals and their habitats. When this walk has been completed the students will go back to class and in their groups will create a video using Windows Movie Maker out of all of the different habitat pictures they took. Next, each students will choose their favorite picture that they took and individually write a 150-200 word essay. This essay will need to include why they took the picture, what habitat it involved and talk briefly about the animals which live in the habitat. This will be completed on a Word document.====

__Screen Shots: How to make your movie on Windows Live Movie Maker__


__Final Product:__ media type="youtube" key="zYvnwr46Q0k" height="327" width="569"