Summary
After learning about force and motion, students worked together to find examples of items they would find in their homes and described the motions in short video clips (students collaborated with a parent volunteer to make the videos together). Students researched, cut out pictures, and placed them in the appropriate rooms in a large paper house “blue print” displayed in the hall. Teachers then used Studio Aurasma to link the video clips to the pictures, creating ‘auras’ that could be scanned with smart phones and iPads. Parents, students, and visitors could then scan the photos on the house and watch the student videos explaining the motions of the objects, revealing a ‘virtual world’ inside the 2 dimensional house drawing.
TIPC Ratings
This strand was not the focus of this lesson.
This lesson falls in the Ideal/Target range. Throughout this lesson, children were able to communicate and collaborate with each other, practicing their oral language skills and ability to communicate effectively. Children were able to practice using new content vocabulary and basic oral communication skills. The teachers were able to provide students with a real-life task to tackle a goal on their developmental level. Through the process, students were able to assess their own work as they determined the effectiveness of the pictures they located. Students were able to reach an audience outside their classroom via the virtual world inside the Motion Houses, thanks to the use of Studio Aurasma. In addition to children reaching outside the classroom, teachers were able to do so as well. The teachers were able to affect other teachers in the county, as the lesson was shared via a post on an ITRT blog to share with other teachers, sharing our experience and lesson with others, hopefully spurring them on to try out a new technology in their own classrooms. Lastly, using Studio Aurasma has allowed the teacher to utilize the app in other lessons and hopefully teach and inspire other teachers to do so at the technology conference this summer.
This strand was not the focus of this lesson.
This strand was not the focus of this lesson.
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