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Relative Position and Motion Slide Show |
Credits:
Steve Gandy
Mountain View Elementary School
Broomfield, Colorado
Linda Block-Gandy
Adams 12 Five Star Schools Science Teacher on Special Assignment
VITAL INFORMATION
Subject Matter:
Language Arts (English), Science, Technology
Grades:
4
Software Application:
Kid Pix, AppleWorks, StarOffice, PowerPoint
LESSON DESCRIPTION
Summary:
Students create a slide show demonstrating their understanding of the relative position of objects and the relative motion of objects in relation to other objects. This project can be used as a summative assessment of student understanding of relative position and motion.
State & National Standards:
CO- Colorado Academic Standards
« Subject : Science
« Standard 2: Physical Science: Students know and understand common properties, forms, and changes in matter and energy. (Focus: Physics and Chemistry)
« Key Idea 2.2: Students know that energy appears in different forms, and can move (be transferred) and change (be transformed)
« Grade/Level : Grades K-4
Performance Indicator : recognizing that energy (for example, light, heat, motion, sound, mechanical) can affect common objects and is involved in common events
Performance Indicator : making observations and gathering data on quantities associated with energy, movement, and change (for example, distances for a bean-launcher, time for a melting ice cube);
Performance Indicator : comparing quantities
associated with energy movement and change by constructing simple diagrams
or charts (for example, graph of launch distances, chart of melting time)
« Key Idea 2.3: Students understand that interactions can produce changes in a system,
although the total quantities of matter and energy remain unchanged
« Grade/Level : Grades K-4
Performance Indicator : predicting what changes and what remains unchanged when matter experiences an external influence (for example, a push or pull, addition or removal of heat, division of clay into pieces, melting an ice cube, changing a ball of clay to a flattened shape).
Local Standards:
INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY SKILLS CONTINUUM
Standard #2 Productivity Applications: Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.
2D Multimedia - Uses basic creativity or authoring tools such as KidPix, HyperStudio, and/or PowerPoint to create a multimedia product
2D.1 Creates a picture story
Lesson Outcomes:
1. Students demonstrate their understanding of the position of objects and relative motion.
2. Students use the draw environment to show their understanding of relative position and motion using pictures or drawings.
Assessment/Rubrics:
Rubrics:
CLASSROOM & TIME MANAGEMENT
Student Prerequisites:
Students should have worked on investigations and activities from SCIS3+ Relative Position and Motion Unit up to, but not including, Section 5 - Polar Coordinates.
Students in other science programs should have worked on investigations and activities that show/describe/explore the position of objects and the motion of objects.
Students need experience in a paint or draw program.
Lesson Preparation:
Make copies of rubric for each student.
Time Frame:
5 class periods. 45 Min. per class.
Implementation Steps:
Class #1
1. Teacher describes project and explains rubric for project.
2. Students use a draw program to create a slide (picture) with at least three objects in it.
Students write an explanation of the position of these objects in the slide in relation to each other.
Class #2
3. Students create a second slide using the first slide as a reference. It should basically be a recreation of the first slide. Students create a way to show movement of one object in this slide. Examples of "movement" in a slide may be created with lines, multiple copies of the same image, or a blurred image. Students may be more creative.
4. Students write a description of the object's movement relative to other objects in the picture.
Class #3
5. Students create a third slide showing the "resting place" of the moving object.
6. Students once again write a description of the position of the objects in relation to each other.
Class #4-5
7. Students edit their slides.
8. (Optional) Students can create a fourth slide defining "motion."
9. Students share slide shows.
RESOURCES
Lesson Resources:
SCIS 3+ Relative Position and Motion (Sections 1-3, 4 optional)
Teaching Physics with Toys
STUDENT PRODUCT(S)
Product(s) Description:
Students create a presentation (i.e., slide show) demonstrating their understanding of the relative position of objects and the relative motion of objects in relation to other objects. This project can be used as a summative assessment of student understanding of relative position and motion.
REFLECTION
Comments:
Some students might need more time to explain their slides. Students were very creative in showing motion of an object.
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Developed under a grant from Sun Microsystems, Inc. Open Gateways at Mountain View
Elementary School by Steve Gandy, Technology Coordinator - mountain.adams12.org/TISS
© 2003