Tip for management while showing a movie: Always have something for your students to do.
Here's something fun I do to ensure students are paying attention, not goofing off, and are engaged in learning during a movie...
I call it:
WORDART
It looks something like this:
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My students LOVE it! I've only done it twice this year. (I don't think you should over-use it.) The first time was for social studies when we watched a little movie on the Aztecs. We did it again a couple weeks ago when we watched part of a movie about the Mayflower. You can see by the words they've chosen to write down that they really paid attention, looking for the important information about the subject.
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P.S. Sometimes, when I show a movie, I just have my students write down 10 interesting facts. Click
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