Thursday, May 17, 2012

Going Green

Our school is really trying to "go green" with recycling bins and campus beautification projects.  We're trying to celebrate Earth Day everyday.  Leading up to the official Earth Day, my fifth graders did a short research project during the month of April that focused on recycling facts.  They worked in small groups and found some really interesting facts that surprised us all.  But what to do with those facts?  They were tired of the same old Power Point presentations that they had done in the past.  Plus, we have very limited time in our fixed library schedule.  So we took a skill they already had (PowerPoint) then took it to another level. They produced a PowerPoint presentation, then saved them as jpegs, and then loaded them into Animoto.  Voila! A video public service announcement in no time flat.  They really had fun choosing their theme and music.  Sometimes it wasn't exactly what I would have chosen but beggars can't be choosers!