The Grade 7s created videos about famous people using Animoto

There are many different ways to present research in a classroom. In this lesson we decided to use the free version of a video-creation tool, ‘Animoto’. www.animoto.com.How did we go about the lesson?

1. First of all we went over the process of creating a video using Animoto.

2. After that each student chose a famous person to research from the Biography section of the Ducksters website: https://www.ducksters.com/biography

3. The students had to find and download free-to-use images of their famous person to use in their videos

4. For content the students needed to think about the following questions:Who is this person – when was he/she born and in which country do/did they live?

• What made this person famous?
• Something about his/her early life
• What did this person study after school?
• Interesting facts about this person’s reason for fame.

Structure of the video

• It should use about 7 frames with writing which summarises key points about the famous person.
• It should include music.

Here are some examples of the created projects:

Andy Wahl by Casbru: https://bit.ly/3DWGRXz

Donald Mustard by Calcam: https://bit.ly/31dIZfe

Nikolai Tesla by Ethkau: https://bit.ly/3120sqJ