Common Core State Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.1
Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
Objective
Students will describe a 360° video or image in writing and verbally share it.
360° Learning Experience
The teacher will place students in pairs with Partner A being the speaker who describes a 360° video or image in writing, and only Partner A can see the 360° media. Once written, Partner A reads the description to Partner B, who can only listen to it. While listening, Partner B is to draw the image that is being described. After Partner A finishes reading the description and Partner B completes the drawing, Partners A and B compare the 360° media to Partner B’s drawing of it. They look for areas of similarities and differences, and they discuss the descriptions read by Partner A said and how Partner B interpreted them. Once complete, Partners A and B swap roles and repeat.
Recommended Teaching Strategy
Example 360° Learning Experience
In this example, the teacher will do a think-aloud to model ways to describe an image that she can view but her students cannot, as if she was Student A and trying to describe the image to Student B.
Based on the image from the American Tobacco Campus, a description might read:
“It’s an outside basketball court in a pavilion type-setting, and it has a chain-link fence around it. The pavilion provides shade over the court. On the far-right back corner of the court, there is a small group of men shooting baskets, but it does not look like they are playing. Then, outside of the fence, directly across from where I’m looking, there is a train stopped, with no passengers on it. Behind that train, there is a parking garage. On the right side of the pavilion, outside of the fence, there is a building. However, on the left side, there are a few trees. Outside of the pavilion, it appears to be a sunny day.”