AR Making Something (see what I did there?)

 

Hello and welcome back to the amazing and radical place that is my blog!!!‼️🐺😛🔥💥😎 today you guys can read all about the humanities project called BONVOYAGEEEE‼️👺💥🐺😎🤟 Its set in the age of exploration, so the age when the Europeans started to colonize all around the world. This age allowed for so many opportunities and new ways to be uprooted by other societies and places. Without the age of exploration, we wouldn’t have access to half the things we do today. The driving question is “How can we use storytelling to investigate what sparked global exploration and understand its impact?” I think that by making a story to spread knowledge is the best way to get people to understand because it activates all thier senses and really gets people active in the learning. It can also make the learning easier because you are hearing it in a way that you understand. 

Brainstorming boards:

For our fist assignment we made brainstorming boards on Padlet! It helped us find all the different reasons (causes) and affects (consequences) of the Europeans coming to North America. 

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Cause and consequences:

For this assignment we made a sheet that connected the causes and consequences of the Europeans coming to North America. Some causes were for example, the king being rich enough to fund exemptions to gain more land and power. And then a consequence of this would be racism. Filling out this sheet helped me really start to connect the two different factors.

AR Makr: 

For the final assignment, we made a story. But it wasn’t just a story, it was made in a cool app callled “AR Makr”. AR Makr allows you to tell a story while also displaying images! For the actual writing part, we had to create a fictional story about a exhibition to North America. My story revolves around a ship captain who accidentally goes to North America instead of Madagascar. After we finished our story, we made drawings to correspond to the different parts. Then we put all the drawings into AR Makr and made a video/story. My story has a beginning, middle, and end that clearly displays a historically accurate struggle about racism and many other real life problems. 

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Thank you for reading this blog post! I had a good time making this project, so hopefully this post was just as good! Happy spring break!