Paper Slide Videos :: The Nervous System {IBL}

The fourth video in the grade 5 Human Body series is the Nervous System. The students are doing an awesome job of breaking down their system into steps that make sense and describing how their system works. As they finish, they have a clear understanding of their system and a video production they are proud of. Awesome!

The Nervous System from LeslieDent on Vimeo.

Paper Slide Videos :: The Skeletal System {IBL}

The third in our series, the Skeletal System!

The Skeletal System from LeslieDent on Vimeo.

Paper Slide Videos :: The Respiratory System {IBL}

The second video in our grade 5 human body series is The Respiratory System!

The Respiratory System from LeslieDent on Vimeo.

Paper Slide Videos :: The Digestive System {IBL}

I have started working with both grade 5 classes in IBL. They are looking at the body systems in Science so we decided to do paper slide videos in small groups on each of the systems.

The first group were experts on the Digestive System. They wrote the steps to their system and created the drawings you see. Enjoy!

digestive system from LeslieDent on Vimeo.

Plastic Bag Assembly Production

Tomorrow we will be having an assembly and sharing our Plastic Bag Round Up project with the school. They know it is going on because we have talked about it, advertised it and sent notes home but we thought we should share our progress.
Last year my students and I created a video for this same purpose. When I showed it to grade 5 to kick off and explain our plastic bag project this year, they immediately wanted to make one of their own. I thought this was a great way to introduce Animoto so that the students could use it on their own in the future.
We took photos and video clips during each of our bag counting days and started putting the video together as a class. Today, we did some more detailed planning using linoit, digital sticky notes, which allowed us to organize our plans as we brainstormed. Here is our final linoit product.

Before we got to this point, we had brainstormed all the things that needed to be included in our video production. Once we had all the ideas down, we were able to move them into the order we wanted them incorporated and decide who would like to be recorded saying each one. Once this was done, we grouped the notes to show who would record whom and talked about video recording skills. (Boy, when I put it all down in detail, we got through a lot!) The students recorded each other on our Flip cameras and voila! Our production! (Well, not quite just voila. I am finishing it off in Animoto due to our deadline of tomorrow.) We will post the video once we have shared it with our school community.

-Mrs. Dent Scarcello :)

Video TWAS

This week since while we were doing TWAS we decided to try out our new video cameras to make a mini video TWAS! I compiled the video using iMovie over the weekend but in the future, students will be able to do this themselves using the iMovie app we have on our iPads and iPods.

- Mrs. Dent Scarcello :)