We have just come out of a new project called “Bon Voyage 🌊” in this project we have been learning about the age of exploration, the Vikings and the European explorers. 

🏎️ DQ (Driving Question)

How can we use storytelling to investigate what sparked global exploration and understand its impact?

How we end up doing this is by writing a story on pages and having to draw a bunch of drawings that we would end up putting on our AR Maker app to make a digital story.

Getting Started With AR Maker:

At the beginning of this whole project we were experimenting with an app called AR Maker.
A reason we were experimenting with this in the first place was because our entire project was going to end with us writing and making a digital story. 

I found this difficult to make but in the end it was actually really fun! We had to make a one minute story and draw out all the aspects that would go into it here is mine:

Technology:

We learned a lot about the kind of technology that was used to travel and that was traded during the Columbia exchange and the European exchange. Some of these were Compasses, Sextants, Caravel ship and more! 

We made a sketch of each of the important things during the exchange and made this too show our knowledge of what we had learned:

Connecting Cause And Consequence

Connecting the cause and the consequences was a very big thing that we were learning about in our class. A reason this was a giant thing we were learning is because it is a clear thing to know when you are writing a story. When I say connecting cause and consequence I mean that for example: “Timmy was cheating a math test with his phone” Then “Got caught cheating and failed his math test” Then connecting the cause with the consequence “His parents got mad and took away his phone”. We did many assignments on this to show what we had learned here are some examples:

Story Mountain

A story mountain is when we started to write our story that was:

– Historically Accurate
– Detail Oriented
– Has A Beginning,Middle,End

 

I found this part took a lot of thinking and when I was writing this out I had to think a lot about how I wanted the story to go and how I wanted it to include everything that we had learned. I end up going with a very historically accurate version of history and it actually turns out pretty well. I tried to film the entire story that I had created on AR Maker and then voiceover it on IMovie. 

My AR Movie:

 

Conclusion:

I really enjoyed this project because it allowed us to show our knowledge in a new, fun and creative way! I love how we learned about so many aspects of our project before we made our end project I had many assignments that led up to our end product which is the video above. In conclusion I will take these things that we have learned and will use them in the future and I will also look back at this project and will think about the things that we have learned. 

Hope you enjoyed reading and stay posted for my next post! 👍