Group+05+Michelle's+Activity

By: Michelle Tremblett (Meery)
 * Animals: Replicating the Movements of Jungle Animals [[image:http://www.buzzle.com/img/articleImages/291924-5101-33.jpg width="210" height="137" align="right"]] **


 * TIME FRAME **
 * Class 1: **
 * Time || Teacher will || Students will ||
 * 10 minutes || * Activate prior knowledge:
 * What type of animals can you find in the jungle? || * Brainstorm and make a list of some animals that would be found in the jungle.
 * Would compare their results with a partner to see if any different animals have been thought of. ||
 * 10 minutes || * Ask students if the same animals can be found in this province that is found in the jungle?
 * Show students some animals that live in the jungle that don’t live in this province.
 * Start discussion about why different animals live in the jungle and not in this province. || * Respond to the question and justify answer about why different animals live where they do.
 * Engage in active discussion with group members ||
 * 25

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> minutes || * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Give mini-lesson on how to use Pivot Stickfigure Animator
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Remember: book a computer lab with enough computers for the students. || * Pay attention
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Complete the practice task after teacher provides instructions. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Class 2: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Time || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Teacher will || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Students will ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">45 minutes || * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Remember to book a computer lab
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Ensure that all computers have the Pivot Stickfigure Animator downloaded.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Provide students with various links to YouTube where they can find the appropriate jungle animal movements. || * Search through the links for the animal they wish to work with and watch closely at the animals movements.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Use this video to replicate a pivot stickfigure of your animal and its movements (be as precise as possible). ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Class 3: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Time || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Teacher will || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Students will ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">5

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> minutes || * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Review previous classes || * Review previous classes || __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|All About Wildlife] __ <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|YouTube]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">20 minutes || * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Open Pivot Stickfigure Animator
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ask students to open the link from YouTube of the animal they chose to work with.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ask students to create the animal they chose to work with and to be very precise with the animal’s movements. || * Open their Pivot Stickfigure Animator program
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Open up their YouTube link of their animal to view its movements again.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Begin to recreate their animals as a pivot stickfigure and take several frames to precisely show its movements. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">20 minutes || * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Prompt students in a class discussion:
 * Compare the different animals students created.
 * Do you think you could have done things differently to make your animals movements more precise? || * Engage in class discussion
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Use prior knowledge and what has been learned in this Jungle unit and with the Pivot Stickfigure Animator to explore the questions presented. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">DIGITAL LEARNING RESOURCE **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The “All About Wildlife” website has a complete list of jungle animals for students to choose from. In addition to this, the world has several different jungles or rain forests and the animals in each would be different so they list the animals under each jungle area.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">YouTube is a great resource for finding and watching specific jungle animal’s movements.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS **

__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">205-10 __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, __206-6__
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Science: **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">RATIONALE/TEACHING APPROACH **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Constructing and making improvements are important skills that are addressed in the grade 4 NL curriculum. It is through replicating a jungle animal and its precise movements that students will practice these skills of constructing a model and making improvements to increase realism. It would be expected that after this lesson students would then be able to apply their new skills through a more in-depth activity. For example, creating a motion-stop movie.

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">SCREENSHOTS AND PROCEDURE NOTES **
 * [[file:How to use Pivot Stickfigure Animator.pdf]]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">MATERIAL LIST **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Pivot Stickfigure Animator ([|download] for each computer)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Access to a computer lab


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">FINAL PRODUCT **
 * [|Pivot_Stickfigure_Elephant!.gif]