Banana Split Making

Phase I:
Using digital storytelling to teach students how to make a banana split is beneficial because it allows the students to understand events in a sequential and logical order.
Phase II:
SC Curriculum Standard:
NETS-S
3. Technology productivity tools
-Students use technology tools to enhance learning increase productivity and promote creativity.
-Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, prepare publications, and produce other creative works.
Phase III:
Before Technology-Explain to students what digital storytelling is and the procedures to making a banana split. Go over the ingredients needed in order to make a banana split. Students will be put into groups of 3.
During Technology- Students will locate pictures online that help them illustrate the process of making a banana split. Students will go to the computer lab and design their digital story and power point.
After Technology- Students will save their projects in the class folder. The teacher will put their projects on the class web-site. The digital stories will be graded using a rubric.
Phase IV:
The instruction of the project will take place in the classroom and the process of making the digital stories will take place in the computer lab. The teacher will be available to answer any questions that the students may have.
Phase V:
After the projects are finished the teacher will have the students write a brief paragraph explaining what they liked about the project, what they disliked about the project, and what they think could be done to improve the project. The teacher will then take these suggestions into consideration.