Americas Most Wanted: Invasive Species

TIPC Ratings

In this lesson students are required to acquire, evaluate, and apply information researched on a specific invasive species in order to create the Public Service Announcement. They will review search strategies, site authenticity, and citations with the school Librarian during the course of the lesson to help strengthen their information fluency skills. In addition, students will construct their own questions to guide the research using the KWL chart.

In this lesson students will use a variety of resources for communication. They will utilize Google Docs as a class to generate a list of characteristics for invasive species as well as a list of invasive species that they can research. In small groups students will use Google Docs to create and complete a KWL chart on their selected topic. Those small groups will then select a digital tool to use for the presentation of that information in a PSA.

Students will be required to generate, research, and answer their own questions using the KWL chart (in google docs) on the invasive species they have selected.

Students were instructed to create a PSA using the presentation tool of their choice. At the end of the lesson students had created their presentations using MovieMaker, GoAnimate, and Prezi. They synthesized their research and created an original work.