Fun video for teens about the true story of Lawnchair Larry: Ideal for online classes.
This lesson has 3 main stages:
Students look at pictures from the story of lawnchair Larry and predict what happened and in which order.
They watch a 3 minutes section of the video below to see if they were right.
Post video, students complete dialogue from the story and match it to the pictures.
Interested? read on for more detailed instructions, or open the documents attached below.
Instructions
Pre-watching Task
Show Students the image of Larry:
“Does anyone know who this is?”
Tell the class that they are going to watch a video about Larry Walters who tried to fly using a garden chair with balloons tied to it, but first I they have to guess what happened:
- Share link for google slides attached below (see video below for how to use google slides)
Assign each pair of student s to a different slide (white/blue/yellow, etc.) and get them to drag the images into a logical order.
Video Demonstrating How to use Google Slides
Main activity
1. Show students the video from 2:20 to 6:00, either directly or by sharing the link so students can
watch in groups.
One of the advantages of online classes is that you can let students share audio in break out rooms, giving them control over pausing/repeating depending on their needs.
2. Students check their picture order and complete the dialogue on the subsequent slide.
(if you shared the video link, they can go back and check for themselves at this stage)
3. Using the comment function, students paste the dialogue to the correct picture. (see below)
The great thing about the comment function on google slides is that it's easy for you to reply to comments with corrections in real time. (I tend to put any reformulations in capitals so they're easy to see).
Materials
Video Link:
Google Slides - (make a copy of this so you can use it with your students):