I was lucky to work with the awesome students in Mrs. Ferguson’s class earlier this week. The students have been learning about weather and Mrs. Ferguson wanted to tie writing into her lesson. So we came together and developed a fun activity for the students.

The students were put into groups of about 3 and each given a weather event. They then had to imagine that they were a meteorologist and write a weather report. Mrs. Ferguson had her class go through the standard revision process as the class would have done for any piece of writing.

The weather groups then took their report and put together a simple video using Windows Movie Maker. They imported a picture and recorded their voice. After the recording students trimmed their movie to an appropriate duration. Check out two of the great examples below.

Student Meteorologists from Jim Covais on Vimeo.

What made me the happiest during this lesson was that this was the first time Mrs. Ferguson’s class used Windows Movie Maker. I’m so proud of them. If this was just their introduction to the program, imagine what awesome videos they will create next time.

Want to create something similar with your class? Want to dive right into Movie Maker? Sign up, and we’ll plan something great!

I was lucky to work with the awesome students in Mrs. Ferguson’s class earlier this week. The students have been learning about weather and Mrs. Ferguson wanted to tie writing into her lesson. So we came together and developed a fun activity for the students.

The students were put into groups of about 3 and each given a weather event. They then had to imagine that they were a meteorologist and write a weather report. Mrs. Ferguson had her class go through the standard revision process as the class would have done for any piece of writing.

The weather groups then took their report and put together a simple video using Windows Movie Maker. They imported a picture and recorded their voice. After the recording students trimmed their movie to an appropriate duration. Check out two of the great examples below.

Student Meteorologists from Jim Covais on Vimeo.

What made me the happiest during this lesson was that this was the first time Mrs. Ferguson’s class used Windows Movie Maker. I’m so proud of them. If this was just their introduction to the program, imagine what awesome videos they will create next time.

Want to create something similar with your class? Want to dive right into Movie Maker? Sign up, and we’ll plan something great!