Ms. Harrell’s 1st grade class at Carver has been learning about patriotic symbols. The four main symbols they are learning about are the Statue of Liberty, the Washington Monument, the American Flag, and the Bald Eagle. Ms. Harrell wanted to spice up her unit, so I suggested we have each student make an iMovie. This program is so easy to use, and I was really excited to try this with 1st graders!
I used the Wikimedia Commons Website and found copyright free pictures of the symbols for us to use. Using iMovie, the students dropped in the pictures, made their title page and ending page, and added the copyright free music from Free Play Music that I had downloaded for them. The students had a blast seeing the quick movie they had created about the Patriotic Symbols. Next week, we will go back and record our voices to tell a fact about each symbol to add to the movie. Until next week, here is Daniel’s iMovie he made.
Feel free to sign up for a lesson with me to come in and teach your students how they can make movies based on the content you are teaching as well!
UPDATE! We have now learned how to put our recorded voices into our movies! Here’s Braeden’s movie:
