InTime video

The video I watched this week was called Electing the President - Hyperstudio. It was a lesson for second and third graders that takes them through the entire election process from creating political parties, to choosing a candidate, making speeches, and finally to election. This information was very useful and definitely a lesson I plan to use with my third graders. I do a presidential unit each year, but I haven't incorporated much technology into it yet. The activity on these videos could be done every year, regardless if it's an election year or not. I think the Hyperstudio project will be an excellent way to teach the election process, because it gets the students more involved in the process than just watching a video or being lectured to about it.