Happy Constitution Day

Most teachers would call what you are about to see a mistake. The music ends way before the pictures end on this paper slide video and I let it happen! In fact, I encouraged it. I had a mixed group of special education and regular education students in the library doing this paper slide video project to one of Dr. Lodge McCammon's tunes called "We the People." The song is about the first 3 articles in the US Constitution and it was originally intended for a kinesthetic learning activity. I originally did this the kinesthetic activity with 4th grade students but I think this paper slide version allowed the students to be less worried about their appearance and concentrate more on the content.  I did not think the special education students in the group understood what was going on but they did and they put together packets of more pictures than I had planned to go along with the music, so I let them show all of their work. The idea of a paper slide video is to do it in one take with no edits but I hope Dr. Lodge will forgive me when I edit this later to loop his wonderful song (which the kids have been humming all day!) to make this project stand out even more. I love Constitution Day. Other teachers think it is a chore to teach about the Constitution, an interuption in their schedule but for me in the library it is a joy. Hope you enjoy what my students put together in a 20 minute block of instructional time!