Spring 2017

Unit Plan
Unit Planning Organizer
Subject: Computer Technology / Language Arts
Grade: 4
Unit/Topic: Digital Storyboard / Animation
Date and Unit Duration: March 7 - March 23
Project Overview Description and link to student engagement (rationale):
We have planned for my student to collaborate with another student to produce a
bi-lingual animated story of a retelling of a fairytale and animating the story. I plan to
allow the students to have a choice in the story they chose, with the limitation being to
Disney or familiar fairytales. They will have the creative ability to retell the story and add
their own dramatizations. To do so, the students will animate the scene on Pivot animator
and then record an audio to tell the story. We will use Garageband to overlay sounds
effects to add to the animation. If there is enough time, we plan to incorporate french
either directly into the story, or create a french scene. This will allow the students to not
only work collaboratively, but also creatively and incorporate another language.

1. Unit Overview Critical Inquiry Question

How do you recreate a story through animation?

2. General Learning Outcomes for Unit

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Grade 4 Language Arts Outcomes
General Outcome 2
Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to comprehend and
respond personally and critically to
2.3 Understand forms, elements and techniques
2.4 Create original text
General Outcome 3
Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to manage ideas and
information
3.1 Plan and focus
3.2 Select and process
3.3 Organize, record and evaluate
3.4 Share and review
Grade 4 French - Communication
Express simple oral messages by using gestures, one word utterances,
memorized global expressions or simple, concrete sentences based on available models

3. Focusing Questions for Unit (Related Questions)

I wonder
What is the story you want to communicate?

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How will you tell a story? Beginning, middle and end

What qualities does your character have? Main and secondary characters
What happens to your characters? (challenges) How did they resolve the
problem?
How does the story make your reader feel?
How do you convey emotion?
What is the solution or resolution?

4. Key Concepts for Unit

Creative story writing - Twisted Fairytale. French
Audio - Garageband
Animation - Pivot

5. Specific Learning Outcomes for Unit

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2.4.4
select and use visuals that enhance meaning of oral, print and other media texts
produce oral, print and other media texts that follow a logical sequence, and
demonstrate clear relationships between character and plot
produce narratives that describe experiences and reflect personal responses
3.3.4
organize ideas and information, using appropriate categories, chronological
order, cause and effect, or posing and answering questions

Outcomes from Cross Curricular Competencies: *

Collaboration
Communication
Creativity
Language Arts
o Visual Representation
o Creative Writing
French

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Detailed Visual Organizer of Unit Lessons and Assessment

Dates/ Outcome Learning Activities Assessment**

Topics

March 7 Determine which Deconstruct the story and Determined a

story we will determine how we will retell it plotline, main
recreate, and how we Determine which characters characters and
will alter the story will be involved and the dialogue
Work on developing dialogue Prepare a script and
a script by creating a Explore Pivot animator on the practice to recite
dialogue computer

Record the audio on Record the dialogue audio Complete the audio
March 9 Garageband Use the audio to determine the recording
Begin creating animation sequence Create and
animation on Pivot introduction to
animation
Continue creating Work on creating fluid Ensure that the
March 14 animation animation that recreates a animation matches
Begin looking for popular story and aligns to the the audio description
additional sound audio file Ensure the animation
effects Overlay sound effects onto the is being completed
spoken audio
Complete the Finish all additional Ensure that all
animation sequence animations needed elements will be
March 16 Add all additional Attach all remaining audio ready for
sound effects presentation
Synchronize all of Edit and ensure it is ready for Did we complete
March 21 the elements of the presentation the project?
animation and audio Did we get to
incorporate our entire
plan?

March 23 Presentation Day

Sponge Activity:

-If we finish early we will extend the length of our scene by expanding on the story

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Resources

o Alberta Program of Studies - Language Arts K-9

Outcomes
o Alberta Program of Studies - French 4-12 Outcomes

Pivot Animator
Garageband