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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: 103 Things to Do Before/during/after Reading

For Students K - 1st Standards
The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...
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South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: Bell South Digital Storyteller: Generations of Heroes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Information and advice for participating in a digital storytelling project that documents the experiences and memories of those who have served the United States in war or other military conflicts. Step-by-step instructions, useful...
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Other

University of Virginia: Welcome to Digital Storyteller

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Helping classrooms to utilize more technology, the University of Virginia has developed this website to provide a source for building digital storytellers.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Teachers: The American Dream

For Teachers 9th - 10th
With the help of digitized primary documents -- pictures, photograph, recordings, and written accounts -- students will explore and define what the "American Dream" meant for people over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth...
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PBS

Pbs: Multimedia Storytelling (A Lesson Plan Family Memories)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan for exploring the use of multimedia presentation techniques in effective storytelling. Design, write, storyboard, and create a multimedia presentation of a story about an important family event or memory.
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Animation for Grades 6 12

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will create an animation to represent one of the many feedback loops that influences climate change. To create their animation, students will use clay, cut paper, whiteboard or other materials commonly found in the classroom....
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Kids Vid:scripting

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A simplified description of video scriptwriting for elementary school kids with a free storyboard program added.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Abc Bookmaking Builds Vocabulary in the Content Areas

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Six 50-minute lessons build vocabulary through the content areas by making an ABC book. It can become a classroom resource. Links include a non-fiction book list, checklist, word list, rubric, and a storyboard chart. There is also a link...
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George Eastman Museum

George Eastman House: Discovery Room Tips: Think Like a Filmmaker [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 7th
Learn about the roles of director, cinematographer, and screenwriter in the filmmaking process. Includes templates for making film-production props--director's bullhorn, cinematographer's storyboards, and a scene clapper--so that you can...
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New York Times

New York Times: Anatomy of a Scene: Michael Bay on "The Island"

For Students 9th - 10th
Michael Bay describes his approach to storyboarding an action sequence in the movie "The Island." Includes actual captioned storyboards from the production and video of the finished scene.
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New York Times

New York Times: From Sketch to Screen: "A Very Long Engagement"

For Students 9th - 10th
Launch an audio slideshow, narrated by the director of the film, about storyboarding sequences in "A Very Long Engagement." An interesting site for considering the work of the storyboard artist, whose sketching technique is wonderfully...
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TES Global

Tes: Shakespeare's All the World's a Stage

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] These activities focus on understanding Shakespeare's language using Shakespeare's As You Like It's seven stages of a man's life and a storyboard.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Taking Apart and Reconstructing Stories

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson is designed as a project-based unit plan that will take students through the narrative process from deconstruction to construction. After initial discussion, students will use the Interactive Story Map feature at Read Write...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Translating Short Stories Into Original Short Films

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After reviewing the elements of the short story, students develop a script and storyboard from a published or original story. Students then film and edit a video of the story to present during a class film festival.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Space: Bringing the Universe to the Classroom: Collection

For Teachers K - 1st
Learn to identify and predict daily patterns of motion of the Sun, Moon, and stars across the sky with various media, including an interactive storyboard featuring the beloved characters from PEEP and the Big Wide World. For a printable...
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Left Foot Right Foot: Integrating I Movie [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This PDF document is a PowerPoint Presentation on integrating iMovie into your classroom. The five basic steps of plan, shoot, capture, edit and publish are outlined and examples of how to use iMovie in your classroom are given. Finally,...
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Other

4 Teachers: Kids' Vid

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides students and teachers tools and instruction necessary to plan, script, create, edit, and show videos in the classroom. Includes lessons, example video clips, pre- and post-production tips, and advice from other kids.
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Haines: Laptops Templates and Resources

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Looking for ways to easily integrate technology into your classroom? This site lays out a template of 10 classroom sessions that effectively models use of laptops in the classroom. Units include a HS English research paper, health class...
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Global Problem Solvers

Gps: Global Problem Solvers : The Series Season 1: Working Well: Scripts

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Global Problem Solvers is an animated STEM series from CISCO that features a group of middle school students who work together to solve social problems. This teacher's resource provides scripts for each Global Problem Solvers episode...
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Teachers.net

Teachers.net: Flip Books and Story Boards

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
While this lesson is designed to aid in communications technology, the concept and procedure of the lesson can be readily used in any class. The main concept taught is organization and developing chronological order.
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Toy Theater

Toy Theater: Animation Station

For Students 3rd - 8th
Create a cartoon animation by drawing the background and different frames. Then play back the cartoon and enjoy!
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Finish Your Scene!

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity focuses on finishing the scene by arranging items with rotation. The items that just require translation and scaling are already in place. Now you can add items that also require rotation.
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Other

Left Foot Right Foot: Video Rubric [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This rubric is designed to score videos. The site contains categories on planning, shooting, editing, enhancement, content and creativity. Print this PDF file out and use it for your students.

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