Thursday, January 15th- 7th Grade- Tech Careers- Finish Animation and Film Trailers

	Archdale-Trinity Middle School Lesson Plan
Date: 1-14-2015

Teacher:	Witkowski
Lesson/Unit Topic:	Tech Careers- Animator
Standards:	DL-5 Digital Lifestyles PB-1 Characteristics of Content- Appropriate and Inappropriate PB-2 Procedure for developing a presentation

“I Can…” Statement	Criteria for Success-Formative/Summative Assessments
I can animate a narrative, persuasive or educational presentation.	Students animate a narrative, persuasive, or educational presentation.

Literacy/Vocabulary Strategies (Word Wall)
http://www.deviantart.com/morelikethis/288186383
Bell-Ringer/Connecting Strategy
On page 89, type sentences 25 and 26. Today’s typing is a general review using all of the alphabetic key strokes we have learned this semester..
Lesson-Instructional Strategies & Procedures for Teacher and Students (Detailed Plans Including Best Practices, Researched Based Strategies)
Guided Practice: @ WHEN students are finished with their animation, they will work on their movie trailer. @ Record a 15 to 30 second recording about why your movie is great! @ Miss W will show students individually how to convert their animation to video @ Miss W will remind students to increase the duration of their speech bubbles @ Miss W will show students several techniques- changing the color of the sky, ground, etc.; making something invisible or visible, moving the pieces of code to different locations, and other tips @ Students will participate in the hour of coding by using the Alice animation program, which is based on the Java coding language. @ Free download at http://www.alice.org Independent Exercise: @ CHECK YOUR SPELLING @ Students will create animation based on their storyboards. @ Movies are PG-13, no killing people, no bad language, etc.
Higher Order Thinking Questions
Opinion Question: We have created 3 types of presentations (educational/informative, persuasive, and narrative) which type of presentation would be more enhanced with animation? WHY?
Student Technology/Differentiation
Students will use animation to create a narrative presentation.
Closure Strategy
Students will recycle worksheets they do not want to keep.