One of the professional development workshops I’m facilitating this week is titled Making the Curriculum Pop. We’ll be focusing on the use of digital media and alternative text selections to engage students’ interest in “pop” culture. I would appreciate any ideas for connecting music, TV, movies, newspapers, magazines, etc. with the curriculum, as well as links to images, audio, video, resources, etc. that you can share. I’ll certainly credit you for your suggestions, too.
Hi Cliff–sorry for the late reply here! Kids I’ve been working with this year are huge fans of stop motion and some have been creating stop motion video interpretations of their favorite texts, songs, and movie characters. There are also some fantastic movie shorts out there which kids can replicate easily in order to make “curriculum pop.” : ) Here is favorite of ours.
Pity about the ads, but students can make up brief articles and post them like a newspaper on their blogs at:
http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp
Fun activity to introduce ideas of headlines, spacing and content of articles.
Hi
(In Science) we run a “Celebrity Couple” lesson to teach genetics and a “Newports Next Top Model” to teach about inherited characteristics.
The students are given copies of Hello, OK and all the other celeb mags we can find. They cut out faces, bodies, arms, legs etc and make the “perfect” body. They then comment on what the advantage of each body part is (long legs = run faster, taller and more attractive (subjective)).
They then breed their person with that of a partner.
Lovely!!
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I created a site that contain visual examples of literary terms for my students to use as reference. It uses film clips as examples and then there is an animated segment to help explain if needed. The site is called Literary Terms Visualized and is located at http://visuallitterms.pbworks.com/
Hi Clif, Secod attempt. We have a Ning devoted to Making Curriculum Pop. Here is a link: http://mcpopmb.ning.com/
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Hi Clif, We have a Ning site dedicated to “Making Curriculum Pop”. Check it out here: http://mcpopmb.ning.com/
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@web20classroom @clifmims Hey, replying to Steven’s plea for curricular connections to culture (popular)! Happy to share ideas. DM email!
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@web20classroom Warhol style: with two campbell’s soup cans; pop culture meets physics; communication meets media; and more!
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