Individual Education Plan

For my Individual Education Plan (IEP), I created an iMovie Unit for my 11th Grade U.S. History class. All of my students learned how to create an iMovie, how to organize information into a story format, and how to tease out the significance of an historic event. The unit went through storyboards, creating a bibliography, researching, and writing a script.

Throughout the unit, I made time to help individual students as well as the entire class. We spent time in the computer lab at the high school, and I spent a lot of time outside of class working with students who needed help. We also spent time in the classroom working with iMovie, and mapping out our stories.

Students got to select a historic topic from a list of 100 significant events of the 20th century. One of the highlights of the project was watching them work on a project about a subject they were interested in. Topics ranged from the 1918 influenza epidemic to the falling of the Berlin Wall and the origins of jet travel.

For my iMovie, I chose Nixon's historic visit to China in the early 1970s. You can see it by clicking here.

To see the unit's lesson plans, click here.

Click here to see my iMovie grading rubric, and click here to see the storyboard from my iMovie (the model I used for my students).