Above is an example of an opening line for students advertisements for the thirteen original colonies. There were three components for the activity.
1) Research Sheet - each group of students was assigned an iPad to use and needed to use Safari or Google Apps to search out information of their colony. They looked up: Basic information (who founded, when, type of colony, etc.), Religion, Economics, Political, Examples of Laws, Relationships with Native Americans, and Interesting Facts.
2) Story Board - Plot and Plan the order they wanted to talk about things in their presentation and what the general concept that they wanted to say was.
3) The Presentation - Students could use iMovie (if it was on their iPad) or Voicethread to make their advertisement. It needed to include at least six visuals, plus at least 3-5 facts from each of the categories on their information sheet.
Rubric:
35 points Information - 7 topics (up to 5 points each)
10 points Articulation
10 points Creativity - (Would people want to come to your colony after seeing your advertisement?)
10 points Visuals
