Teacher | Virginia Trekker | Instructional Technologist
I created this activity at the request of 1st grade teachers at Longdale. It is a fill in the blank activity that does take a little thinking. There is a word bank included on the template. When the kids are finished, they click back on slide #1 and hit the play button to see their movie that includes animation and music. I have included an exported example and the template below.
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This lesson takes spreadsheets to a new place. Graphing is fun and simple in Keynote. The students added their “crimes” data into Keynote. We changed the theme and added our recorded clip to the slideshow. The kids added builds and transitions to make it their own. I have included an exported example and the template below. And yes, there were many Gingerbread men harmed in the making of this activity.
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My design team.
This project is made using Keynote. I sat down with 3 designers that helped me build the template. They went back and taught their classmates how to make their own Gallon Man. The kids used the Keyboard Shortcuts for cut and paste to create enough pieces. They added “builds” to each piece to help put him together. I have included an example of a completed Gallon Man as well as the template below.
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Want your kids to be animators, movie makers? How about creative? Try animating with Keynote. The following are two example of animations using the “move” action in Keynote.
Click twice on the following pictures to start the movies.
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The following video is everyone’s video from Ms. Irby’s 3rd Grade Class.
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This activity is for 1st grade when you cover motion. The pictures and terms are directly from the curriculum framework.
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