Our Video

As we prepare for the learning opportunity of the United States Election, we are participating in a state-wide event. Students are learning about the Electoral College and how voting works.

First, each class was assigned a state. Ms. Leom's class was assigned South Carolina. Mr. Greninger's class was assigned Maryland.

Next, we watched videos about the electoral college. Ms. Leom's class watched School House Rock and an EdTed presentation (both videos are linked). Mr. Greninger used a resource from a school subscription (that we are unable to link).

The Presidential Election of 2016 is filled with strong opinions. Our focus was on two authors: Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and Mary Pope Osborne, author of Magic Treehouse.

We had some technical difficulties loading information. Ms. Leom put information about Mary Pope Osborne on her big screen. Several students were able to pull up information on Jeff Kinney, and students were invited to move around there room to read about him from the iPads that had the information.

From here, our two classes varied in how and what came next.

There is a vote of the two authors.

Then we tallied our results. Ms. Leom read off the ballots, with two students reading over her shoulder to confirm her results. We added up the ballots for Jeff Kinney and the ballots for Mary Pope Osborne to make sure our tally marks reflected the count.

There is the math of figuring out the percentages. We had three students who had to leave early. This reflects the population who doesn't make it to the polls. This wasn't purposeful. This was the day and time our polls were "open", and some voters weren't able to attend.

We researched our state.

These were the facts our class thought were most interesting.


We made our script for our video and practiced. We made adjustments.

 Then we shot our video.


 I tried to upload it ... it didn't work ...