Our seventh grade science teacher, Mrs. Schwittay, is asking students to "Show What They Know". She is asking students to create a Rube Goldberg experiment. Instead of having every group present them one at a time in front of the class, students will be using their iPads to record the creation and hopeful success of their invention.
Students will be using the iMovie to splice the entire experiment into portions so as to describe the different science applications.
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Once the iMovie has sliced the video, students will export the entire video and portions of it into Explain Everything. EE will be used for explaining verbally the questions they asked and the information they learned.
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Eventually, students will export their Explain Everything to their Google Drive and share it with the teacher.
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Of course, we can't forget to have students log out of their Google Drive access in Explain Everything.
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Impact On Students:
Collaboration: Working on the Rube Goldberg process will take serious collaboration. As far as technology use, the students will need to decide as a group what parts of the video and explanation that applies to the video needs to be recorded.
Critical Thinking: Smashing two apps together takes critical thinking. Remember the definition of critical thinking? Critical thinking is a process that leads to skills that can be learned, mastered and used. Determining the process of bringing the movie into iMovie, splicing, producing, and inserting takes a thorough thought process.
Creativity: Not only will students need to develop the Rube Goldberg path, but producing an Explain Everything creation could take on a form of humor, fun, light hearted, serious, or determined tone.
