Math - Animoto

This is a copy of a math project that was done with Mrs. Maroney's fourth grade math class at Mossy Oaks Elementary. We broke her students into three groups. One group went with the teacher, another group went with the math coach, and the third group went with me. This made the project very manageable.

I used my personal camera and the other two groups used borrowed grade level cameras.

We started at the school's math word wall and looked at all the terms we could use. This gave students a good starting vocabulary. The math coach put together forms that the students filled in as they took turns taking pictures. They had to list the picture and the math association with it. The students in the group rotated the camera. Each group took a certain area of the school (my group had the hallway, library, and large playground).

I put the pictures (79 total) into PowerPoint, which allowed me to write on top of the picture and put in the outlines (I saved the final project as a jpeg and uploaded to Animoto.com - a subscription to the site is $30 and completely WORTH it! I think they have a free educators license but I purchased it for personal projects) . In hindsight I should have had the students do the part in the computer lab involving PowerPoint. I think they could have handled it and it would have been more meaningful and taught them some of the features in PowerPoint. Oh well...next time :)

All in all the project turned out well and the student enjoyed being out of the classroom.