Digital+Storytelling

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__Module Leaders__
 * Lindsay Poirier (poiril@rpi.edu)
 * Maureen White
 * Greg Niguidula (niguig@rpi.edu)
 * Adrienne Wilson
 * Tom Holland (hollat@rpi.edu)

__Short Description__

Students will create a story related to an environmental issue and then digitize it using online storytelling tools.

__EcoEd Concepts__
 * People having creative info-seeking practices, and animated analytic capabilities
 * People understanding (though familiarity with historical and cross-cultural examples, for instance) potential for change, and alterative ways of doing things and organizing society
 * People being able to conceptualize complex causation, without being paralyzed
 * People being able to use empirical understanding of complex causation to identify specific points of intervention.
 * People understanding the challenges and value of collective deliberation and cooperative action.

Intended Grades : 5-6

__Material Needed__
 * Computers
 * Paper
 * preferably moral story templates
 * Pens
 * A method for presenting
 * 10 jars/buckets/boxes/etc

__Timeline (4 hours)__ 15 minutes - introductions -Show video: [] 30 minutes - Activity/Presentation: 10 Biggest Threats to Marine Life -Present slide -Students each write down one question they have about the threat. -One person walks around the room collecting the questions for each slide (marine threat problem) in a separate jar labeled with the threat. -At the end of the presentation, each student group is handed a jar. -The student group chooses two questions from the jar and one question of their own to research online. This information will be included in their story.
 * -Interactive activity**

15 minutes - Video that describes a solution to marine life threat 1:17:30 - 1:20:15, 1:29:00 - 1:31:20, 1:34:45 - 1:37:15 Happy Feet clip to discuss overfishing

5 minutes - split into groups 60 minutes - write story (RPI students circulate for help) 10 minutes - get set up on computers

60 minutes - create digital storybook > ** Class Name: ** Sustainability ** Password: ** ecoed ** Class ID: ** 400-4320 > (Students will only be able to sign in with this during designated times.)
 * http://www.storyjumper.com/school

30 minutes - present storybooks

15 minutes of gap time

__Activity Description__ Through creative story-writing and digital media, fourth and fifth grade students will have an opportunity to conceptualize the threats to marine life in a unique way. After learning about a variety of marine issues, the students will work together to craft a story that brings one of these problems to life and presents a solution. After completing their fictitious work, the students will learn how to use online tools to create digital storybooks in order to illustrate their story. At the end of the session, families will be invited to watch the students present their digital storybooks to the group.

During this workshop, students will:
 * broaden their knowledge on the threats to marine life,
 * learn to consider the cause and effect relations involved in environmental sustainability,
 * learn to think about creative solutions to complex problems,
 * and practice articulating their perspectives through creative writing and digital storytelling.

__Parent/Guardian Follow-up__ Students will be given an instruction sheet on how they can access the class's digital storybooks from home. We will draft a letter to parents explaining the issues that were covered. We will explain how parents can ask their children to read the stories and explain the issues that they represent.

__10 Biggest Threats to Marine Life Presentation Topics__



>> http://www.tonycharters.com/images/Tourforce%20December/ocean-level-climate-change.jpg >> http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/visions/coral/image1.html >> http://www.worldculturepictorial.com/blog/content/fimmaker-richard-pain-swim-great-pacific-garbage-patch
 * Ocean Acidification
 * http://www.oceanpowermagazine.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/ocean-acidification.jpg
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_affect_of_climate_on_ecological_dead_zones_in_the_Gulf_of_Mexico.jpg
 * Pollution
 * http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01654/ocean_1654260c.jpg
 * Overfishing
 * http://comfortablyunaware.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/overfishing-21.jpg
 * Irresponsible Fish Farming
 * Invasive Species
 * http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/171/cache/article-invasive-species-lionfish_17126_600x450.jpg
 * []
 * Offshore drilling/Oil Spills
 * Coral Bleaching
 * Dead Zones
 * Shark Finning
 * Mercury Poisoning

Sample Story made with StoryJumper