Invention Convention

Teachers Involved:      
Molly DeBoer, Leila Webb, Shannon Manion, Brad Thies (ES 4th Grade Team) 
Sarah Carpenter (DLC Team)
Ross Brown (Curriculum Coordinator)

Grade/Year level: Grade 4

SAMR: Modification

Description:
Students to use design process to create an invention that they market at an upcoming invention convention.  For DLCs the focus is on the design process and presentation skills.


Curriculum:
This unit ties in with social studies and literacy.


Tips and Tricks:
The Design Process

• Time needs to given for testing and modifying.

• Describe design in terms of both form and function - use Alessi products as examples of this.

• At end of unit, photograph concept drawings and the finished product and have students write a reflection on the process including:  how things changed from concept to creation and why, the challenges they faced and how they met them.

Presentations

• Have students build in the note section before putting a single thing on the slide.
• One slide per point/idea

Reflections

• students reflecting on the process is very important.  Initially they may not reflect at a deep level, so stimulate their thinking with what? How?  Why?  questions

Challenges:

• It's important for teachers to realize that the design process is messy and chaotic - students will pass through this stage as they refine their ideas.  Stay with the process

Resources Needed:

• Invention Convention Google Slides For Design/Presentation/Appeals lessons
• The Design Process/Cycle of Inquiry
• Stanford Design Model

Associated Web Links:

• Ellen Show Kid Inventors - Bathroom inventions
• Ellen Show Kid Inventors - 3 Kid inventions and a baby (high chair one particularly good)
• Kid Inventions Turned Into Reality

Time Involved: (specific lessons - not including support in class following a lesson)

• 1 hour:  Marketing Your Product 
• 1 hour:  Alessifying Your Product
• 1 Hour: Appeals
• 1 hour:  Presentation Skills

Contact Information:  sarah.carpenter@seoulforeign.org

Science Forces and Motion Videos

Teachers Involved:      
Molly DeBoer, Leila Webb, Shannon Manion, Brad Thies (ES 4th Grade Team) 
Sarah Carpenter, Alan Hoskin, Nathan Walker, JJ Akin    (DLC Team)


Grade/Year level: Grade 4


SAMR: Modification

Description:
Students make a video illustrating one of the forces and motion science concepts that they have been studying.  They need to explain the concept and illustrate it with both an experiment and a demonstration.


The Science Bros - Inertia from Seoul Foreign School on Vimeo.

Tips and Tricks:
It is important to ensure that students have  enough time to thoroughly cover the science concepts in class and have a clear understanding of their concept.  

Storyboard, storyboard storyboard!!! (see next section)

When filming, immediately delete footage that you don't want.  It makes it easy in the editing stage as you are not having to sift through a lot of unnecessary footage.

Use cross dissolves as the basic transitions.


Challenges:
Storyboarding:
It is important to storyboard clearly with students.  Time spent at this stage saves a lot of time in filming and editing.  You can check out storyboarding tricks and tips here.

Scripting:
If students use a script and they don't know it well, it becomes a barrier to efficient filming.  However, not having thought through the key points of what they want to say also is a barrier to efficient filming.  We would recommend students bulletpoint their key points for each frame of their storyboard and practice the delivery.


Resources needed:

• storyboarding presentation (Pear Deck File - see DLCs)
• Zaption storyboarding (see DLCs for link)
• storyboarding sheet
• science resources for experiment demonstrations
• iPod touch or iPad for each group (approximately 3 - 4 students per group)

Associated Web Links:

• The Art Of Storyboarding

Time involved

• story boarding lesson - 1 hour + homework on zaption
• Storyboard creating - 2 - 3 lessons (45m - hour each)
• filming -  1 hour (students must be well planned)
• editing -  1 - 2 hours (be aware green screening is a longer editing process)

Contact information
sarah.carpenter@seoulforeign.org