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Project Description:

Our team decided to complete a project that emphasized the significance of Fort McPherson National Cemetery, located near our school. Our school presents an annual ceremony honoring the veterans of our community. We wanted to educate people about this prominent national landmark by incorporating it into a Veteran's Day Project.

As a culmination to a unit on citizenship & patriotism, students in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades visited Fort McPherson National Cemetery. Students received a guided tour filled with intriguing history and cemetery protocol. Students used LW cameras to create video documentation and photographs of the visit.

Back at school, the presentation was divided into three sections. The 2nd graders wrote scripts and used imovie to record video segments defining who and what a veteran is. The segments were then compiled along with photographs of the trip to Fort McPherson to complete the first piece of the presentation.

Using iMovie, the fourth graders recorded scripts giving the history and protocol of Fort McPherson. The voice recordings were then compiled with pictures to create this segment.

For the final segment, the third graders created presentations honoring individual veterans. The third class first selected one prominent veteran interred at Fort McPherson. This veteran was presented during the tour. The teacher lead the class in research and finding photographs for a this particular veteran. The students then created storyboards describing what they wished to share about the veteran and found pictures to match those descriptions. The segment was recorded in GarageBand.

Following the same procedure described above, students worked in pairs, completing segments on two other veterans interred at Fort McPherson, and four veterans that are living members of our community. In order to gather information about the living veterans, these individuals spent an afternoon with students answering questions and sharing their personal experiences.

The completed project will be shown at the 2012 Brady Veterans' Day Ceremony.

Participating Members:

Bridget Rossman brossman@esu16.org

Tonja Shaw tmshaw@esu16.org

Jeanene Lusk jlusk@esu16.org

Final Project Video