5th Grade Weather Tools
Fifth graders at Trevvett Elementary have been reviewing 4th grade weather tools (SOL4.6b), so today students in Ms. Capano’s class created animated GIFs showing the weather tools in action. We used ABCYa! Animate to create the moving images. First we brainstormed creative ways to illustrate each tool (rain gauges filling up, anemometers rotating, thermometers rising or falling, barometer dials moving, wind vanes spinning). Next, we went to ABCYa! Animate and drew a picture of the instrument as well as the background weather. I showed them how to copy each frame with the Copy Cat button. Then they added small changes and moved objects by increments in each subsequent frame. I pointed out that they could use the Text Tool to add neat numbers to their instrument for accurate measurements. Finally, we exported the animations as GIF files and posted them to an album in Schoology, but you can see them all here.