1st Grade Force & Motion Movie
Today, Mrs. Favale’s 1st grade class at Holladay Elementary made force and motion movies with me. She assigned each of them a concept from SOL 1.2. The students thought of a way to demonstrate the concept and I filmed them. We had students showing pushes, pulls, circular motion, back and forth motion, vibration, and friction. Once the filming was done, I edited it in iMovie. For older students, iMovie is a great program for making quick simple movies, but for first graders, the teacher may need to do most of the work since it can be a little complicated. After editing the video, the last step was to add the music. You can find copyright free music for video projects like this on Freeplay Music. The song I used was called “Building Blocks Underscore.” You can see the final movie by clicking here. If you’d like to do a video project with your class, please feel free to ask me for help. That’s what I’m here for!