Vidcast 2

Vidcast

• Name of Vidcast: Tribes of Utah

• Core Curriculum: Fourth grade Social Studies, Standard 2

Students will understand how Utah's history has been shaped by many diverse
people, events, and ideas

• Rational of Subject Choice: I chose this topic because I feel that the American Indians native to Utah play an important role in who we are today. They were the first people here and should be recognized as such.

• Nets and INTASC connection: This vidcast connects to the NETS and INTASC in many ways. By up loading it to YouTube and making it available on our own sites the parents or guardians have access to what their student is doing in class. The vidcast can work as a model for the students of what you will have them do. I could brake the class into five different groups, assigning each group a tribe to research. Then each member of the group could each be assigned a specific topic to research, such as food or housing. Then the students could work together to create a vidcast similar to mine, high lighting the key points. This lesson integrates, language arts (doing research, writing a paper and writing a script), social studies

( the Utah Indians), multimedia ( creating a vidcast) and it also teaches the students
how to work with others, and how to summarize and pick out key items.

• Draw Backs: I may have given them too much information in the vidcast, leaving them with little research to do. Also from the presentation that is meant to be an introduction to a new unit may not fall into the learning objectives of the standard that was chosen. This vidcast is meant for a fourth grade class, it would be useless on a sixth or second grade class. You never know for sure what grade you may be teaching.

• Future plans for this series: This vidcast is simply an introduction into a unit of several lesson plans on the Utah Indians. We would probably spend a day per tribe, then perhaps go on a field trip to the Museum of Peoples and Cultures in Provo. It would also be fun to play Indian Jeopardy and have the students create their own Vidcasts, demonstrating what they have learned.