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Documentary Lesson Plans
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Learners are introduced to a project about documentary films. They view documentaries and choose a response project to complete selecting from among journal writing, making an original documentary and/or completing an art project.
Students create a document and explore how a documentary is a real story about a real hero. In addition, they think about their audience.
Learners locate Bosnia on world map, discuss Bosnian Civil War, research information about Bosnia's recent past, its present, and its future, and write and present documentary about Bosnia.
In this lesson students develop visual literacy skills and explore the work of Rondal Partridge as a documentary photographer during the Great Depression. They explore considerations such as subject, composition, light, and perspective.
Students collaborate to create historical documentaries. In this American Civil Rights lesson, students research primary and secondary sources about the events and people important to the movement in the 1950's and 1960's. Students then use Windows Movie Maker to create classroom presentations to share with their classmates.
Students propose and create documentary films depicting a slice of "ordinary" life that reveals something unique or surprising about its subject. They, in groups, make films and present them to the school.
Students explore social issues that are meaningful to them and create documentaries in which they share their information, thoughts and impressions.
In this lesson students conduct background research about a Pacific Rim country to develop a premise for a documentary film about the fate of traditional fishing industries in the area.
Students explore renewable and nonrenewable energy sources and develop a documentary that explores multiple energy sources and draws conclusions about their uses.
In this lesson students explore oral history and documentary theater. In this genres of theater lesson, students connect stories of personal history to the creation of documentary theater. In this lesson students learn what characteristics embody documentary theater and explore the use of theater as a medium to express controversial perspectives.
