Invasive Species Trailer

In groups students created an iMovie trailer on an invasive species to Canada (idea from Bill Thompson at ITT meeting 2012-2013).  Students researched specific questions on their species and then created the trailer to clearly summarize their findings.  They watched the trailers that they created in the Fall on their narrative stories.  They deconstructed these trailers, looking for what was effective and ineffective in a trailer.  They used this information to make their science trailers more specific and detailed.  Another strategy to bump up their work was using the initial questions from their research and having the students find evidence in the trailer of where they answered these questions in their final product.  This is when the best revising and editing happened in our classroom.