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Collaborative PSAs

Unit: Middle School Wellness

Grade: 8

Established Goals (Standards)

ASCA Standards:
Standard 1: Students will acquire the attitudes, knowledge and skills that contribute to effective learning in school and across the life span.
Standard 7: Students will acquire the attitudes, knowledge and interpersonal skills to help them understand and respect self and others.

NETS for Students:

Creativity and Innovation

Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.

Communication and Collaboration

Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.

Enduring Understandings

Essential Questions

create original works as a means of personal or group expression.
interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media.
contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems.

What personal issues do students in middle school have to deal with?
How can you help students deal with these common issues?
How will you collaborate and communicate with students in another school/country/culture to address these issues?

Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence

GRASPS Task

Six Facets of Understanding

Goal: Students will create PSA videos in partnership with another International school.

Role: In teams, students will brainstorm, storyboard, script, film, edit and produce a PSA related to a common middle school student issue.

Audience: Other middle school students, parents, Internet community.

Situation: Students at two International schools will work in teams, sharing data back and forth, to create PSAs to be posted on the Internet and shared with other MS around the world.

Product Performance: Successful creation of collaborative PSAs.

Extension:

(Explain, Apply, Interpret, Perspective, Self-Knowledge, Empathize)

Students will explain the necessary components of collaborating on a large scale, internationally, through digital media.
Students will apply the skills they have learned about collaboration and communication from previous lessons.
Students will interpret the project and understand the relation to future mass collaborations.
Students will gain perspective on the issues surrounding MS students and the skills necessary to successfully collaborate.
Students will use self-knowledge to understand their own personality traits that help/hinder collaboration.
Students will empathize with peers, understanding the unique individual characteristics that are a part of mass collaboration.

Lesson Notes:

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