{"id":2240,"date":"2014-12-04T10:50:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T14:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2015-05-08T10:14:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T14:14:04","slug":"4th-grade-earth-motion-animations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=2240","title":{"rendered":"4th Grade Earth Motion Animations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-08-at-10.11.53-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-08-at-10.11.53-AM-300x175.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-05-08 at 10.11.53 AM\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-08-at-10.11.53-AM-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-08-at-10.11.53-AM.png 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Fourth graders at Davis Elementary have been learning about the motions of the Earth in science (SOL4.8) so today students in Ms. Bennett&#8217;s class created animations showing how the Earth revolves around the sun. I posted a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/abcya.com\/animate.htm\">ABCYa! Animate<\/a> on their Google classroom page and showed them how to draw the first image using a space background and two circle shapes for the sun and Earth. We discussed the relative size of the circles (SOL4.8d) and which direction the Earth moves around the Sun&#8211;it&#8217;s counterclockwise (SOL4.8a). Then I showed them how to label the objects with text boxes and group them so they move together. Next we used the copy cat button to make a copy of our image, and we moved the Earth a little bit.  We continued making copies and moving the Earth gradually until we had one revolution. We set the animation to loop and then published it as a .gif file. The students posted their finished animations to the classroom page and I gathered them together <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1KC4OJrCVuUflC11wfP0tOYEkX3FJiWqUbKp4Z9ag__I\/pub\">here<\/a>.  You can also see examples from Ms. Lara&#8217;s class at Holladay Elementary <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1oqfj05q0rj8UmS1FvRr5Dbvvgv-DJDDbgux0c8-iIBk\/edit#\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth graders at Davis Elementary have been learning about the motions of the Earth in science (SOL4.8) so today students in Ms. Bennett&#8217;s class created animations showing how the Earth revolves around the sun. I posted a link to ABCYa! Animate on their Google classroom page and showed them how to draw the first image&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=2240\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[86,75],"class_list":["post-2240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4th","category-science","tag-animation","tag-webtools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2240"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2247,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions\/2247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}