Teresa+Brandt+and+Allison+Murphy

=Application Project Plan (APP) Planning Sheet=

__Name__: **Allison Murphy & Terri Brandt**
__Briefly describe your tentative APP or how you think you might incorporate media literacy into the work that you do with teachers and/or students.__
 * We will incorporate a variety of movie clips as a "preassessment" of content knowledge. Students will evaluate the clip for fact and fiction. After the instruction of the content, we will revisit the movie clip and have students evaluate the clip for fact or fiction again.**
 * Tentative Title: Earth Science and the Movies**
 * A very exciting approach but this requires finding documents that tie to your key science knowledge but also not so easy to decode that students can do it the first time around. Consider the possibility of having some different documents for the pre and post assessment. **

__Target Audience__**: 6th grade**

__Curriculum Goals:__
 * ??? These could be related to student understanding of earth science content or understanding scientific thinking or the scientific process. **

__Media Literacy Goals:__
 * The students will view the movie clips critically to evaluate them to determine why some of the information may be fictional rather than purely factual** (this is written as an activity, rephrase into objectives or goals, such as):
 * Students will identify the difference between fictional and factual information. ** (objective)
 * To develop students abilities to critically evaluate the accuracy and credibility of media messages related to earth science content. ** (goal)
 * To have students develop the habit of asking key questions (about authorship. meaning, construction, etc.) when analyzing media messages. **

__Other Goals__:
 * e.g. developing students speaking, analysis, presenation or group work sills **
 * or the development of your skill in leading document decoding activities. **

__Proposed Activities__: **Create a montage of movie videos.**** (activity) Lead students through analysis of fact or fiction video clips related to different Earth Science content ****Provide worksheet activity.**** What will be the focus of this activity?. ****Discussion.** ** about what? ****Lesson on media literacy.** ** Separate from the decoding activities? Dos this come before the decoding activities? ** __Assessment/Evaluation (how will you know your APP works to meet your goals?)__**:** **Continue activity across several units. Evaluate students' progress of using critical thinkings skills to evaluate clips based on the information provided during science lessons.** ** Great, but how will you evaluate student progress in critical thinking skills (not an easy thing to do)? I am excited to work with you on this. ** __Resources/Support that will help you in your development of the APP__**:** **Potentially will need assistance to find additional clips and develop into the montages.** ** I am working on getting an Ithaca College intern for next semester (starting mid January) to help with this. ** =**__Difficulties/Obstacles to developing your APP__:**= Time ** How can you best use the December 16 time to work on this? ** Finding movie clips ** Yes, this is time consuming but great when it works.Let talk about strategies for finding the right clips. Perhaps I can do a short session on this on Dec. 16. **

**Planning Steps:**
 * 1) **Identify content in which movie clips can be used to evaluate misconceptions of scientific concepts.** ** Yes! **
 * 2) **Create a calendar for planning and implementation of lessons.** ** Yes! **
 * 3) **Find movie clips.**** Yes! **
 * 4) **Plan lessons and evaluation questions for clips.**** Yes! **

=== I look forward to our talk on the 8th. If you can respond to any of the questions and ideas here before that it would help. I am interested in knonwing what content areas you think this will work for and if you already have some models (film or TV clips that will work for this). Chris 11/29 === === 1/4/11: From Bonnie Quackenbush & Sherry Altman at George Junior Republic: We are planning to use clips from the film The Day After Tomorrow that show inaccuracies about low pressure storm systems, etc. Cyndy is going to edit those clips for us onto a DVD, along with the Twister clip and some footage from the Weather Channel. Would you like to use these too? Are there other film clips that you've found that we could also use? ===