Introducing students to technology tools and providing opportunities for them to create products for a real world audience is an important part of college and career preparation. Video projects are also a great way to engage students in middle and high school. Students can create public
Introducing students to technology tools and providing opportunities for them to create products for a real world audience is an important part of college and career preparation. Video projects are also a great way to engage students in middle and high school. Students can create public service announcements to demonstrate their understanding of issues facing the world or their community.
Public service announcements are short videos that are used to explain a topic to an audience and call them to action. Students may be familiar with public service announcement campaigns tied to anti-bullying initiatives, healthy eating or warnings around drug use. Teens can use this medium to state an opinion and make an argument that is supported by facts and data. They most often work in groups or pairs on a collaborative project that benefits their audience by providing information on a topic.
Identifying Local and Global Issues
Before students get started creating a public service announcement, you may want to brainstorm a list of ideas that connect to your community or an area of the world you are studying. Students might form groups based on shared interests or passions, and you might assign students to different groups so that your class produces a series of PSAs on the same topic. This type of activity can help students identify the real world connections to the content they are learning in their classroom. As you and your students choose local and global issues to focus on, you 