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