How to Do Stop Motion Photography

You can learn how to make a stop motion projects using the free version of LIFE LAPSE app.
It's Fun to learn and easy to use.  Imagination is your only limitation. Projects can be made in class with iPad or with a phone.  YouTube  has several tutorials posted and you can get ideas from there.

Now, in addition to large poster boards and art supplies, you can make a stop motion project as part of your math or social studies lesson.  They can be posted in Google Classroom.

Your Stop Motion projects can be combined with podcasts, blogs, and class videos in Google Classroom. 

SEE BELOW:

This is a short tutorial with professional stop motion artist and producer,  Trisha Zemp. 
"Four Tips to Make Your Stop Motion Videos Look Really Good."

If you get excited about this -- like Trisha-- and want to start making stop motion projects all the time, the Life Lapse app is only a few dollars a month.

Digital Video Project with rubric link

Here is a digital video project, with a focus on education. 

Video was collected over a 5 hour period in an outdoor learning environment on watershed science.  iMovie was used as the film editor.  

Most of the time went into reviewing the material, choosing what would be included in the first cut, and then compiling this down into a draft version.  It took several hours from there, to edit down what is shown here [this is cut 30].  I thought most of the time would be spent in filming.  But, it turns out the reviewing and editing takes most of your time and thought processes. . .  

So here is the result. 

Studying our water landscapes, insects, and plant communities.

Combining computers with hands-on learning:

            Children watched videos about watersheds then led group discussions on sustainable
                                                          habitats and watershed health.

This film is the result of a day of following an outdoor classroom. Through-out the day, children learned about plant communities, watersheds, riparian habitats, and insects, Using interactive computer maps and exploring thought-maps of watersheds- upstream, downstream impacts, they learned how to enter data to generate field maps for water quality data in their study of habitat diversity in riparian zones.

Here is the link to Rubric for Digital Video Project

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRxK8cOS8X6sWuETvm_opDqyKxCr_TJhHrKWTz0vyrODT5UQVWIg7Z4jiygK5nVyVJGi9IUCMv5h0KE/pub

Blended Learning: Redefine Your Classroom

Introduction to Blended Learning Series

As more and more people recognize the importance of incorporating online technology into our classrooms-- more opportunities and resources become available to teachers.


This is, especially exciting for MATH, because blended learning opens up an environment for different learning styles and especially for the different paces of concept understanding.

In MATH, each student reaches mastery in different ways and at different times. Blended learning strives to give students resources so they can build knowledge, at their pace, both inside and outside the classroom. It removes traditional constraints on math skills acquisition because students have multiple resources available to them, including lectures that can be revisited at home for understanding. 

In math it can be really stressful when the lesson "goes" too fast.  And if we can't keep up with what the teacher is teaching, we get lost; this may cause us to shut down, which further delays our ability to get the important math concepts we need to build on.
Blended learning give the student a lot more control over the resources they need to learn.

PODCAST: What.About. EUREKA Math

PLEASE CLICK ON MY POD CAST BELOW

This is a podcast where I talk about my experiences using Eureka Math.  I give an overview of a second grade geometry lesson and talk about working with elementary students last year. I tell about their responses to the curriculum. Using this curriculum students thought hard and worked hard.  They developed growth mindset and gained a better attitude about math.
Please click on the link below to listen to the podcast.

first.podcast.what.about.math

Mathematics Curriculum
: Composite Shapes and Fraction Concepts
This work is derived from Eureka Math ™ and licensed by Great Minds. ©2015. eureka math.org

It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution.

Partition  circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, thirds, half of, a third of, etc., and describe the whole as two halves, three thirds, four fourths. Recognize that equal shares of identical wholes need not have the same shape.

Identifying, Composing, and Partitioning Shapes

PODCAST are a GREAT IDEA:  Teachers can communicate with students and provide content the students can assess 24/7.   Education re-defined.