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Frank Martin
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Project
Summary
Allegany-Limestone Central School
1. General Overview of the Proposed
Project:
Take America’s Wars and put them in
chronological order for the students to better understand the
timeline. Do it in Photo Story with Music and Pictures to make them
a part of the story as it relates to our great country. Students
will help with pictures and music as it comes together.
2. Clear Purpose and Objective:
Have a Photo Story of America’s Wars
with music that runs anywhere from 10-15 minutes. Find music that
will keep kids attention and help them better understand the time
periods we are discussing,
3. Stakeholders: grade level, who will
benefit, who will participate in this project.
Juniors in my American History Course.
4. U.S. History Content Area
All of this nations wars from the
Revolutionary war to our current involvement in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
5. Outline Describing Content
Revolutionary War, War of 1812,
Mexican-American War, Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I,
World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Persian Gulf War 1991, Current
involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.
6. Software to be used, internet
materials, contacts, etc.
MS Photos Story, Purchased Music, Photos
(primarily from .gov sites)
7. Level of Student Involvement
Students helped with photos and music,
then assisted in the editing for time on the various photos. This
was to try and match the photos with the music
8. Evaluation process (include students
when possible)
Will try not get it done early enough
for multiple viewing to ensure we eliminate the small mistakes that
always seem to creep in.
9. Timeline: how you envision the
project being carried out between start up and conclusion
We will work on it with a goal of being
done in May but may find that very challenging. We will ensure it
is complete by June 12th.
10.
Comments or Questions:
None at this time – maybe later as we start
to put photos and music together in the PhotoStory.
 TAH
Project Reflection and Evaluation
America’s Wars
Frank Martin
Allegany-Limestone CS
US History and Government (11th grade)
What I learned:
anything that looks relatively easy to do … will be challenging.
I had a couple of students help me find photos of the different wars
and that was helpful. We did the story board first and then thought
about the music we would want to add. I purchased the Forrest Gump
CD as it had lots of period music and then got Billy Joel’s Greatest
Hits #3 as it provided me with “We Didn’t Start the Fire” and
“Leningrad”. I had worked with Photo Story before so we were able
to insert pictures and then music. The text on a few of the photos
took time and some of the pictures on a larger screen still are
blurry. We then had to set up the time frames for the photos and
how they would appear on the screen. This took time but was
educational for me and my students.
What you would and would not do again:
I will do something like this again – I would start earlier
in the year and maybe make it a project for many different groups.
What grew out the desire to provide students with a clearer timeline
of America’s Wars, ultimately provides us with a good introduction
or conclusion to U.S. History. I would allocate more time to
finding photographs to build our story board and maybe even look
more into our local history as it relates to these conflicts. Who
from here fought and died in World War I, World War II, etc.
Student response:
Students were engaged, so it did what I certainly hoped it
would. The music really brought the presentation alive for the
students as we looked at our Nation’s Wars. “The header slides for
each conflict helped them keep in war in perspective” – this was a
popular comment, shared by students. Students have the capacity to
use the technology we have and could probably add voice and movies
to these in future endeavors.
How it changed instruction:
It made it easier for students to reflect on each of the conflicts
as we discussed them through the year. They had a “frame of
reference” for each conflict. The handout (sent with this as an
attachment) each student had and put in the reference section of
their binder for their quick reference on each conflict.
How will this contribute to academic achievement:
If students can put our Nation’s wars in chronological order, this
will enable them to better answer “cause and effect’ questions as
well “what comes first questions”. Time frames seem to be more
challenging for students today – this did help my students this
year.
Much thanks to TDHAH and this great for providing me the opportunity
and motivation to take on this task.
Frank
Martin
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