Cooperative learning: Planning and Recording a PSA
1. Positive Interdependence: Students have assigned roles for researching and recording the PSA.
Group Roles for Research
Group Roles for Creating the Video for the PSA
2. Individual and Group Accountability: Students are responsible for completing a group assessment as well as a personal reflection after completing the PSA.
3. Group Processing: Students will complete an exit ticket at the end of day three explaining what has been accomplished and what needs to be completed by the following day.
4. Social Skills: Students must work together to determine the roles of each group member. Students will communicate as a group to create the storyboard and the script. This will require the students to discuss their areas of research and how it will integrate into the planning and production of the PSA.
5. Face-to-Face Interaction: Students work as a group to complete the storyboard, script, and film the PSA. Students must work together in the planning and recording process, and this must occur in person.
6. Specific Task: Students are assigned specific areas to research at the outset of this activity. Students must bring their knowledge of their assigned topic to the group in order to complete the PSA.
Group Roles for Research
- Dangers of Earthquakes Researcher: One student will be responsible for finding the information that is pertinent to include in their short PSA. This information must fit into a max of a 2 minute window.
- Material Statistics Researcher: One student is responsible for finding research about what materials on buildings withstand earthquakes better. This information must fit into a max of a 2 minute window.
- How to Prepare Researcher: One student is responsible for finding and determining what information about preparing for an earthquake must be included in the short PSA. This information must fit into a max of a 2 minute window.
- What to do After Researcher: One student is responsible for finding and determining what information about what to do after an earthquake must be included in the short PSA. This information must fit into a max of a 2 minute window.
Group Roles for Creating the Video for the PSA
- Actors of the PSA: Two people will be responsible for memorizing the script and acting out the PSA as was determined by the group using the storyboard and script.
- Director of the PSA: Responsible for the video recording of the PSA according to the storyboard and the script.
- Editor of the PSA: Responsible for ensuring the quality of the video and the sound of the PSA and editing for quality and length as determined by the storyboard and script.
2. Individual and Group Accountability: Students are responsible for completing a group assessment as well as a personal reflection after completing the PSA.
3. Group Processing: Students will complete an exit ticket at the end of day three explaining what has been accomplished and what needs to be completed by the following day.
4. Social Skills: Students must work together to determine the roles of each group member. Students will communicate as a group to create the storyboard and the script. This will require the students to discuss their areas of research and how it will integrate into the planning and production of the PSA.
5. Face-to-Face Interaction: Students work as a group to complete the storyboard, script, and film the PSA. Students must work together in the planning and recording process, and this must occur in person.
6. Specific Task: Students are assigned specific areas to research at the outset of this activity. Students must bring their knowledge of their assigned topic to the group in order to complete the PSA.