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The third grade team is using technology as one form assessment

Looking to see how students synthesize/organize info using Garage Band, IMovie, etc. to do a project Curriculum: Euro Immigration, Ellis Island, China/Africa Examples:

Ellis Island reenactment—using all the info they have in an unscripted reenactment, which was then filmed in IMovie. They prepped beforehand and had done many journal entries from the perspective of different characters in the drama. They also had learned about the use of primary sources in class. The “immigrants” were traveling with papers, which they saw for the first time the day of the reenactment. Other students—guards, medical personnel, translators, legal officers—prepared costumes they thought would be appropriate. A child then provided narration for the finished product, which he had prepared with a teacher. Teachers are working on tweaking the project to make sure all children’s voices are heard.

After a study of the Harlem Renaissance and lots of experience listening to the Blues, the children wrote poems and put them to music on Garage Band.