Grade 2 Weather Videos

2Y 13 Dec Weather from Seoul Foreign School on Vimeo.

Teachers Involved:  
Colleen Hoskin, Heather Wirch, Tae Yi (Grade 2 team)
Sarah Carpenter (DLC)

Grade/Year level: Grade 2

Curriculum Links: Science - Weather Unit

SAMR: Modification heading towards redefinition

Description:

Students make a daily weather forecast using the Green screen and scenes of Seoul, to be used for daily display on the lobby monitors whilst studying their weather unit.

Tips and Tricks:

• Ensure the students move forward so that there is distance between them and the back of the green screen.  It stops the green halo affect.

• best filmed on a computer - students can cover the screen with the script (leave a view for the camera)

• Use cross dissolves as the basic transitions.

• Have script printed out A3, and cut into segments so that the text is held high - easy if a person stands behind the computer moving the text as needed.

• No more than 3 students as meteorologists

• Choose an opening and closing theme/credits and just change the content daily.  It saves a lot of time!

Scripting:
Have students translate the weather with some personal comments.  eg - if it's really cold, comment on it. ie. "brrrrrr!  That's cold!  You will need a warm jacket outside today"!

Challenges:
Script Rehearsal:
It is important that students have rehearsed their script so that they can do the video in one take.  iMovie green screen doesn't allow for transitions and breaking up clips.  It works best in one long take.


Resources needed:

• Green Screen and good lighting (3 LED panel lights work well)
• stand for appropriate height for computer to film
• iMovie

Time involved

• need a minimum of 45 minutes to film, edit, add subtitles and export movie (more if you are adding music, opening and closing credits).

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

Matching Game using Smartboard

by Eugenia Chan (Year 1, British School) Alan Hoskin (DLC, British School)


Grade/Year level: Year 1


SAMR: Modification


Description

As part of a Plant unit in Spring, Year 1 students explored the school environment for different types of plants. They repeat the exercise a few weeks later to identify changes.
Previously, students drew what they saw on a worksheet. This was developed, where students took iPads and photographed the plants to help them remember what they saw.

This idea has been taken one step further where the photos taken by the students were embedded in a Smart Notebook file to become a matching game.
This allowed the class to play the game and talk about the differences they saw in the plants that did not match as well as the changes in the plants over Spring.
The activity also allows for students to go back and review using the game.

How to create a simple matching game

Challenges
Students taking photos consistently and then matching them up in the document.
The logistics of taking the photos off the iPads and embedding them relatively straight forward. It would be recommended to down size the images because they were over one Mb in size.


Opportunities
Although the activity was great to have in a Smart Notebook file, the teacher would have liked it to be available on the iPad for more than one child to use independently. After playing around with HTML5 and Java options, it was found that using an existing app was the best option.
Started exploring an app called Stick Around, which has real potential throughout the school for self checking review (K - 12).

Resources needed
iPads
Smart Notebook


Time involved
Nature walk to take photos with the iPad  30 - 40 minutes
Creating the Smartboard activity 30 minutes



Contact information
eugenia.chan@seoulforeign.com
alan.hoskin@seoulforeign.com