5th Grade Force & Motion Animations
Since the upcoming 5th grade SOL test has questions from the 4th grade science curriculum, fifth graders at Varina have been reviewing force and motion (SOL4.2). So today students in Ms. Gallahan’s class created animations showing potential and/or kinetic energy. First we discussed the differences between them. One way to get students to think about kinetic and potential energy is to ask them how to increase each one. How would you increase the potential energy of a toy car on a ramp? (Answer: make the ramp higher or make the car heavier) How would you increase the potential energy of a bow and arrow? (Answer: pull back farther on the bow string). How would you increase the kinetic energy of a runner? (Answer: run faster). After our brief discussion, the students were ready to make thoughtful animations. I posted the link to ABCYa! Animate on Google classroom and showed them how to use the tools. The students created their animations frame by frame and exported them as GIF files. Next, we posted them to Google classroom with questions for our classmates to answer. You can see their animations and questions here.
In searching how to put the projects my students created using ABCya animation on to our Google Site I ran across your blog.
Can you tell me how you were able to put all the animations on in the section under “here”?
Thank you for any help you can offer me!
Hi Connie, here are the steps I follow:
1. Students post their animations to Google classroom.
2. I download their animations onto my computer from classroom.
3. I drag the animations from my computer into a folder on my Google Drive.
4. I create a Google doc and add a table with cells for each student.
5. I drag an animation into each cell and link their name to the animation file in my Google drive.
You could also go to Padlet, set up a page for your class, and students could upload their animations there.