Elaborate

Specific to Level 4, during this phase the teacher will:
 * This phase of the 5 E's extends students' conceptual understanding and allows them to practice skills and behaviors. Through new experiences, the learners develop deeper and broader understanding of major concepts, obtain more information about areas of interest, and refine their skills. **
 * structure opportunities for students to sustain a conversation between each other to deepen both individual and collective knowledge
 * continuously monitor student progress and provide feedback that enables students to understand where they need to improve

For more information relating to the 5 E's model see Enhancing Education and for a deeper understanding of the Elaborate phase see the DEECD website.

__**Learning Objectives: **__ Students will be able to deepen their learning by creating a video depicting their knowledge about Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. This lesson considers the Victorian Essential Learning Standards, particularly Civics and Citizenship. "Students at Level 4, understand that protecting the environment requires that people work together... and participate in appropriate actions... to effect positive change. Students also explore ways in which they can actively participate in their school and community." To view the link to VELS Level 4 (Grade 5 & 6) please click here....

__**Lesson: **__

Students will work in groups of 3 or 4 to create a video on Xtranormal Their goal is to create conversation amongst classroom about the importance of caring for environment by Reducing, Reusing and Recycling.

This task will improve learning opportunities because students need to take what they have learnt and **create something that persuades others in what they believe the topic is about and should occur. Think about these questions:**
 * What is Reduce, Reuse, Recycle?
 * What does this programs objectives? What does it achieve?
 * Is that something that can be done by everyone? How?
 * Can you persuade people to become more involved in caring for the environment?
 * What could they do?

Knowing that their classmates will be watching it encourages students to persist harder to refine their knowledge to make a successful creation.

Together students will need to decide on the objective of their video - **how to they want to effect their viewer** They will need to develop a script for their characters (1 or 2 characters) - **how they will effect their viewer** The students will then need to bring it all together, choosing sets, characters and once they begin typing the script they can enhance their video with camera angles, hand gestures and background sounds.

Once students have completed their video, which can be any length up to 1min 30sec, students should have an example of a video that meets the requirements set out in the rubric.



This activity fits in with pervious activities because it calls on students to evaluate what they have learnt and extend that knowledge onto others.