Media Educaiton Project

After our first class, I got a few more ideas about a media education project I would like to do that would both serve as a final project for this class and could be used in my 9th grade Algebra class. I would like to have my students create a short video that involves very large or very small numbers, facts about technology and/or media, and a comparison that helps viewers understand the magnitude of the numbers. This could be used in conjunction with our exponents and scientific notation unit. Students often have a hard time understanding the magnitude of the very large and very small numbers we discuss in this unit. I think using media and technology to hook them, along with the creative piece of creating a movie might help motivate them to understand the numbers as well as see the impact of media and technology on their lives.