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STAGE TWO GEAR UP! ACTIVITY

CREATE A MOVIE MAKER VIDEO ABOUT PARTICIPATING MISSOURI CITIES

Research the Tour’s 2009 participating cities by visiting the links of these cities:
St. Louis Ste. Genevieve Cape Girardeau Farmington Rolla St. James Jefferson City Sedalia Chillicothe St. Joseph Kansas City

On each city’s page, you will read about the city. On most of them you can access additional external links that will give you more information about the city’s history, attractions, events and festivals, and businesses.

After researching, choose a topic to create a video about one of the cities or make a video comparison about several of the cities. Create a storyboard before you begin, so you have a plan for your video. You may use graphics from websites by right-clicking and saving. Be sure to end the video with citations for the website graphics that you use.

Topic Ideas:

A cultural video about the city’s heritage: language, customs/events/festivals based on its founding citizens. Does the city have a specific European influence in its history? Use a video to tell the story.
A timeline of the city’s development to modern day features. Incorporate graphics and information that brings the city’s history to life.
What is the city motto? Make a video that reflects that motto.
Find a topic/subject area that all the cities share in common.
Make a comparison and contrast between 2 or more cities.
Create a tourism guide for a city. What city features will attract visitors? “Sell” the city with a video brochure.
Create a video about Farmington and interview people and take photos, too.

Use the rubrics below as a guideline, so you will know what your teacher expects. There is a rubric for the storyboard and a rubric for the video.

Missouri City Video Storyboard

Teacher Name:

Student Name: ________________________________________

CATEGORY	4	3	2	1
Required Elements	Storyboard included all required elements as well as a few additional elements.	Storyboard included all required elements and one additional element.	Storyboard included all required elements.	One or more required elements was missing from the storyboard.
Content-- (must be in student’s own words or quoted and cited)	All content is in the students' own words and is accurate.	Almost all content is in the students' own words and is accurate.	At least half of the content is in the students' own words and is accurate.	Less than half of the content is in the students' own words and/or is accurate.
Spelling & Grammar	No spelling or grammatical mistakes on a storyboard with lots of text.	No spelling or grammatical mistakes on a storyboard with little text.	One spelling or grammatical error on the storyboard.	Several spelling and/or grammatical errors on the storyboard.
Cooperation (collaboration)	Worked cooperatively with partner all the time with no need for adult intervention.	Worked cooperatively with partner most of time but had a few problems that the team resolved themselves.	Worked cooperatively with partner most of the time, but had one problem that required adult intervention.	Worked cooperatively with partners some of the time, but had several problems that required adult intervention.
Use of Time	Used time well during each class period (as shown by observation by teacher, and documentation of progress in journal) with no adult reminders.	Used time well during most class periods (as shown by observation by teacher, and documentation of progress in journal) with no adult reminders.	Used time well (as shown by observation by teacher and documentation of progress in journal), but required adult reminders on one or more occasions to do so.	Used time poorly (as shown by observation by teacher and/or documentation of progress in journal) in spite of several adult reminders to do so.

Missouri City Video

Teacher Name:

Student Name: ________________________________________

CATEGORY	4	3	2	1
Point of View - Purpose	Establishes a purpose early on and maintains a clear focus throughout.	Establishes a purpose early on and maintains focus for most of the presentation.	There are a few lapses in focus, but the purpose is fairly clear.	It is difficult to figure out the purpose of the presentation.
Images	Images create a distinct atmosphere or tone that matches different parts of the story. The images may communicate symbolism and/or metaphors.	Images create an atmosphere or tone that matches some parts of the story. The images may communicate symbolism and/or metaphors.	An attempt was made to use images to create an atmosphere/tone but it needed more work. Image choice is logical.	Little or no attempt to use images to create an appropriate atmosphere/tone.
Duration of Presentation	Length of presentation was 4 minutes.	Length of presentation was 3 minutes.	Length of presentation was 2 minutes.	Presentation was less than 1 minutes long OR more than 4 minutes.
Grammar and Mechanics	No more than 2 grammatical or mechanical errors.	No more than 3 grammatical or mechanical errors.	No more than 4 grammatical or mechanical errors.	More than 4 grammatical or mechanical errors.
Title	Title clearly supports the topic and acknowledges the video producers by name and grade level.	Title supports the topic but producer name is not available.	Title does not support the topic. Producer name is available.	Title does not support the topic and name of producer is not found.
Credits/Citations	All graphics and audios from an external source are cited.	Most graphics and audios from an external source are cited.	Less than half graphics or audios are not cited.	No graphics or audios are cited.