Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Wednesday, Dec 17th- 7th Grade- Tech Careers- Animator

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Archdale-Trinity Middle School
Lesson Plan
 
Date: 12-17-2014



Teacher:
Witkowski

Lesson/Unit Topic:
Tech Careers- Animator

Standards:
DL-5 Digital Lifestyles
PB-1 Characteristics of Content- Appropriate and Inappropriate
PB-2 Procedure for developing a presentation



“I Can…” Statement
Criteria for Success-Formative/Summative Assessments
I can animate a narrative, persuasive or educational presentation.
Students animate a narrative, persuasive, or educational presentation.


Literacy/Vocabulary Strategies (Word Wall)

Animation programs use to be extremely expensive (several of thousands of dollars), now you can find programs for a couple of hundred dollars. You can now create your own narratives (stories).
Computer animation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_animation

Bell-Ringer/Connecting Strategy

On page 327, type the left upper sentence that starts “Normal view”..
Today’s typing is a general review using all of the alphabetic key strokes we have learned this semester.

Lesson-Instructional Strategies & Procedures for Teacher and Students
(Detailed Plans Including Best Practices, Researched Based Strategies)

Guided Practice:
@ Miss W will remind students to increase the duration of their speech bubbles
@ Miss W will show students several techniques- changing the color of the sky, ground, etc.; making something invisible or visible, moving the pieces of code to different locations, and other tips
@ Students will participate in the hour of coding by using the Alice animation program, which is based on the Java coding language.
@ Free download at http://www.alice.org

Independent Exercise:
@ CHECK YOUR SPELLING
@ Students will create animation based on their storyboards.
@ Movies are PG-13, no killing people, no bad language, etc.  





Higher Order Thinking Questions

Opinion Question: We have created 3 types of presentations (educational/informative, persuasive, and narrative) which type of presentation would be more enhanced with animation? WHY?

Student Technology/Differentiation

Students will use animation to create a narrative presentation.

Closure Strategy

Exit Activity 12: 10 Steps of a Presentation
Do NOT look at the PowerPoint

Lesson Reflections




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