Integrate Frames into the Curriculum


Artifact Interviews

Artifact Interviews

Students will research a historical person or event and retell the story as an animated interview with an artifact from that time or place.

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Public Service Announcements

Don’t Let the Earth Down

Don’t Let the Earth Down

Students will write persuasively on a conservation issue and create a public service announcement to promote their cause.

Persuade with Emotional Appeals

Persuade with Emotional Appeals

Students will build persuasive skills and media literacy as they explore techniques of propaganda and develop commercials that persuade viewers.

Here’s to Your Health

Here's to Your Health

Students will research a health issue, write an essay, and transform their argument into a public service announcement.


Language Arts

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Cycle Stories

In this lesson, students tell the story of a scientific cycle by recreating the adventure of its "main character".

Book trailers

Book Trailers

Students will develop a movie-style trailer for a book they have read.

Create a Visual Poem

Create a Visual Poem

Students will create a visual, or video, poem as they analyze the imagery in a text.

Legends and Tall Tales

Legends and Tall Tales

Students will write and produce an animated tall tale about a historical figure or location.

Modernize a Fairy Tale

Modernize a Fairy Tale

Students learn about key elements of a fairy tale as they retell a fairy tale in modern times.

Personification Stories

Personification Stories

Students will personify an object and write a story as part of an online book or animated adventure.


Math

Fantastic Fractions

Fantastic Fractions

Students use clay animation to learn that shapes can be divided into equal parts.

Shapes Show It

Shapes Show It

Students create visual statements using shapes and color to express and evoke specific emotions.


Science

Fastballs, Free Throws and Physics

Fastballs, Free Throws and Physics

Students will create an animated video that showcases how physics concepts apply to their favorite sport.

Animated Chemical Bonding

Animated Chemical Bonding

Students create animations to demonstrate understanding of a chemical process.

Visit Our Solar System

Visit Our Solar System

Students will learn about the planets as they create a sample travel journal that explains what it would be like to visit one of the planets.


Social Studies

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Ancient Cultures News Broadcast

Students create a news broadcast while studying ancient civilizations.

Historical Journal

Historical Journal

Students will create a historical journal from a fictional character's point of view.

Everyday Heroes

Everyday Heroes

Create media resources that celebrate and promote the actions of a real world hero.

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