PSA
PSA Creating a Powerful Public Service Announcement
What is a PSA?
PSA’s are short announcements prepared to provide information to the public to create awareness about an important issue, inform and influence public opinion about a current important topic or provide health and safety tips.
Your PSA must include:
Minimum 8-10 slides
- One “Cover Slide” that shows your group name, class period, first name of group members
- Your issue must be clearly stated in short, memorable phrases.
- You must include information from your research to support your claim. (What are the working conditions?)
- One- Two slides that have a call for action. What do you want the viewer to do to help make changes for these workers? This should include what the viewer can do to help or where to get more information.
- Your PSA must be persuasive.
- You must include audio and visuals.
Your PSA should either focus on:
Improving the working conditions of Lowell Factory Mill Workers
Or
Improving the working conditions of factory workers worldwide today
Animoto: Log in: cdecoste@carmelschools.org
password: project1
Some links for research:
Lowell Girls PDF from National Park Service
*You can look at these clothing company sites and see if they have an official policy on making sure their factories are safe. Are they making an effort to improve working conditions?
How will my Animoto be graded? Click here to view rubric. PSA animoto rubric.docx
How do I save the picture for my animoto?
Saving Images on the School Laptops:
- Click on the image to enlarge it. Click on "view image".
- Right click "save image as".
- Click "This PC" on the left side.
- Scroll all the way down until see you need your name (H drive). Click on it!
- Open "Pictures".
- Name your picture and click “SAVE”
Colonial Town Hall: Should the colonies declare their independence?
Your Town Meeting Objectives:
Students will research the historical figures for a simulated town meeting in 1776.
- Students will connect the arguments for or against independence to their historical figure.
- Students will prepare and present a speech for the town meeting.
Town Meeting Date: Thursday, December 16th, 1776
Here are the handouts from class that we will be using for your Town Hall:
Loyalist Patriot Arguments.pdf
Town Hall Project Info Sheet.pdf
Get ideas and tips for creating your Town Hall costume from this WAY presentation and video by Ms. Martin!! Be creative!
https://sway.com/Vw6xQHl76H2NEuv7
*Use these as a STARTING point for your research. Keep a list of all websites you visit and gather information from.
- People of the Revolution http://www.biography.com/people/groups/american-revolution
- Events Leading to Independence- A Recap
- Loyalists, Fence-Sitters, and Patriots: An Overview
- Patriots and Loyalists: An introduction
- Liberty Kids Important Biographies about Patriots: http://www.libertyskids.com/arch_who.html
- Loyalist Writing: Charles Inglis
- Look up biography of Your Historical Figure
- Loyalist Response to Common Sense by James Chalmers, A Maryland Loyalist
- Congress for Kids: About the Declaration of Independence
- PBS liberty! A link for important people in the Revolution, including Loyalists and Patriots!
- RevWar Talk http://www.revwartalk.com
- Quotes http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/american-revolution?page=1
- More quotes https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/george_iii_of_the_united_.html
Patriots vs. British Army
Use the website to complete your graphic organizer and then determine which army had the overall advantage in the Revolutionary War.
Advantages-and-disadvantages-of-british-and-americans.html
Salem Witch Trial Hysteria
Using evidence from the documents we used in class answer the question "What Caused the Salem Witch Trial Hysteria?"
The file below has all the relevant materials from class.
Geography Games
Mini Autobiography Project
This is the story of you in a 3-fold brochure! Here is the template for the brochure. Open it and then save it to your folder so you can work on it.
