{"id":2730,"date":"2016-02-04T12:24:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T16:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2016-06-23T12:35:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T16:35:46","slug":"kindergarten-shadows-animations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=2730","title":{"rendered":"Kindergarten Shadows Animations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?attachment_id=2732\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2732\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/shadows-300x177.gif\" alt=\"shadows\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2732\" \/><\/a>Kindergarten students at Davis Elementary have been learning about shadows (SOLK.8) so today Ms. Dunkum&#8217;s class created shadows animations using <a href=\"http:\/\/abcya.com\/animate.htm\">ABCYa!Animate<\/a>. Kindergarten students have a generic login, so instead of sharing the link with them, we had to type it in manually for each one. While we were doing that we discussed shadows: what causes them, which direction they point, and whether they are long or short. Once we were all on the animation page, I showed them how to pick a background.  We made sure we picked a background where the sun would be visible (no night or underwater scenes). Next the students picked an image of a person they liked and an image of the sun.  Since the sun image was orange, we clicked it, and then clicked the yellow color to change it. I instructed them to put the rising sun in the east (right side of the picture).  Then we used the paint brush tool to paint a long shadow under the person, opposite the direction of the sun. Finally, we used the text tool to type &#8220;Morning,&#8221; and our first picture was done. We copied it with the copy cat button, moved the sun to the top center of the page, repainted a short shadow directly under the person, and typed the word, &#8220;Noon.&#8221; For the last frame, we used the copy cat button, moved the setting sun to the west (left side of the page), painted a long shadow under the person pointing away from the sun, and typed &#8220;Afternoon.&#8221; When we pressed the play button, the animation looked like the sun was moving across the sky and the shadows were moving along with it. Unfortunately, we didn&#8217;t have a way for the students to save their animations since kindergarten students don&#8217;t log in, but you can see a sample animation  <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0BykgMgzq4lmwWjJCejB3UHUxN1E\/view?usp=sharing\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kindergarten students at Davis Elementary have been learning about shadows (SOLK.8) so today Ms. Dunkum&#8217;s class created shadows animations using ABCYa!Animate. Kindergarten students have a generic login, so instead of sharing the link with them, we had to type it in manually for each one. While we were doing that we discussed shadows: what causes&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=2730\">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":[8,12],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-2730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kindergarten","category-science","tag-animation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730","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=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2735,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions\/2735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}