Digital Storytelling: Social Constructivism

Below you will find my video created on iMovie.  My fifth graders were having difficulty truly understanding what "vital capacity" means and were bringing different ideas to the table.  To help better understand this, the students participated in an experiment measuring lung volume and vital capacity.  We used lung volume bags to measure a student's vital capacity for the shortest, medium height, and tallest individuals in the class.  The three participants followed directions to take maximum inhalation and then exhale in one, long continuous breath into the lung volume bag.   Students found after watching and participating in this experiment and collaborating with one another that a person's height does in fact effect vital capacity.  The kids learned that the taller the individual, the greater his or her vital capacity.  Enjoy...!