4th Grade PSA on Global Warming
Class 4-302 at PS 124 produced a Public Service Announcement (PSA) on the effects of global warming and what we can do about them. After researching this topic as part of a social studies unit, class discussions determined that a class PSA could be effective by creating feelings of guilt in adults over their participation in things that could have devastating effects on the students' future.
Since our students will have watched approximately sixteen thousand hours of television by high school's end, questions should have arisen, even in the minds of officials at the Department of Education, about who will teach our students how to look at television, and when not to, and with what critical equipment when they do.
A rubric for the evaluation of video poetry productions. Students submit online polls to critique Narration, Video Clip Choices, and Editing Style.
Class 5-302 at PS 124 generated original "list poems" based on a Walt Whitman poem, and adapted them into videos using their class blogs, creative commons, and iMovie.
