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We are approaching the end of the 9 weeks, and for 6th grade this looks like a culminating project in preparation to submit to the film festival. The culminating project is completely choice based: students can create a video on the Savannah Bee topic, NOAA, or #geniusminute. All of these categories have their own webpages, and are clickable in the previous sentence. In addition to topic, students can create the videos in any style, and use any technique we have covered: green screen, multiple angles, stop motion, and animation. I can't wait to see what you guys come up with!
8th grade classes are chaotically working on a stop motion animation piece for the book "Captain Savannah, and the Saint Patrick's Day Mystery". I have set builders set building, sculptors sculpting, armature wires being used to create bones for characters, students auditioning for dialogue/narration, and in one section of the room students watching tutorials on Dragon Frame 3. By the end of this project students will know and understand intimately what goes into a stop motion production. The hardest part is getting started, and now that roles have been hashed out I feel like we are gaining traction. This is definitely going to be an adventure, and the journey is where the learning is happening, regardless of the destination we end up at.
7th Grade classes have turned in their 3D printed Nevermore Bug Insect Stop Motion Animations (whew a ton of adjectives)! We are now moving onto our next project: STEM Festival Submissions. Today students were introduced to potential topics that fall under the umbrella of the Savannah Bee Company category. Later in the month, we will be taking a field trip to the Jepson Museum and the Savannah Bee Company on Wilmington Island to gather original footage for our mini-documentaries. There are so many different directions students can take when approaching this topic, and I'm excited to see the direction they go in their research. 7th grade students are also given the option to revisit their science fair projects, if bees aren't their cup of tea!
We are approaching the end of the 9 weeks, and for 6th grade this looks like a culminating project in preparation to submit to the film festival. The culminating project is completely choice based: students can create a video on the Savannah Bee topic, NOAA, or #geniusminute. All of these categories have their own webpages, and are clickable in the previous sentence. In addition to topic, students can create the videos in any style, and use any technique we have covered: green screen, multiple angles, stop motion, and animation. I can't wait to see what you guys come up with!
8th grade classes are chaotically working on a stop motion animation piece for the book "Captain Savannah, and the Saint Patrick's Day Mystery". I have set builders set building, sculptors sculpting, armature wires being used to create bones for characters, students auditioning for dialogue/narration, and in one section of the room students watching tutorials on Dragon Frame 3. By the end of this project students will know and understand intimately what goes into a stop motion production. The hardest part is getting started, and now that roles have been hashed out I feel like we are gaining traction. This is definitely going to be an adventure, and the journey is where the learning is happening, regardless of the destination we end up at.
7th Grade classes have turned in their 3D printed Nevermore Bug Insect Stop Motion Animations (whew a ton of adjectives)! We are now moving onto our next project: STEM Festival Submissions. Today students were introduced to potential topics that fall under the umbrella of the Savannah Bee Company category. Later in the month, we will be taking a field trip to the Jepson Museum and the Savannah Bee Company on Wilmington Island to gather original footage for our mini-documentaries. There are so many different directions students can take when approaching this topic, and I'm excited to see the direction they go in their research. 7th grade students are also given the option to revisit their science fair projects, if bees aren't their cup of tea!