Grade 1 Puppet Movies

Teachers Involved:  
Mary Ellen Lee,  (Grade 1 team)
Sarah Carpenter, Alan Hoskin, Nathan Walker, JJ Akin (DLC team)

Grade/Year level: Grade 1

Curriculum Links: Social Studies and Language Arts - Wampanoag

1L The Lightning Strike from Seoul Foreign School on Vimeo.


SAMR: Augmentation

Description:

Students create a story about their Wampanoag puppet characters and share it with an audience.

Tips and Tricks:

• student moving the puppet should be different from the student saying the lines
• film in short scenes then string the clips together.  You will get a better result with younger students.

Scripting:
It is really important that students have practiced well - this will speed up film timing and make it more effective.

Challenges:

Short Attention Spans of Young Students:

• work with small groups on small scenes.  This helps keep students focused and on task.

Resources needed:

• Backdrop (if using class wampanoag backdrops, photograph and then put onto a minimum of 2xA3)
• Student puppets and backdrop
• iMovie

Time involved

• 1 hour - additional editing may need to occur after that time, depending on how well rehearsed students were and how efficient the filming process was.

Contact information
sarah.carpenter@seoulforeign.org