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Technology-Find the Objects!

Art
Yes

Language Arts
ON

Technology
Yes

Description
Students will use the mouse to click on a "blank" HyperStudio card and then record on paper the objects that they find.

LessonPlan
Yes

Tech Skills
Mouse Control including Clicking appropriately

Software
HyperStudio

EarlyYears
Yes

SubmittedBy
Leslie Gentes

E-mail
lgentes@wsd1.org

Details

This activity is a one card HyperStudio activity which is contained in the file Objects.stk. This file should be stored in a shared/read only directory on the server ie. 2Student.  This stack is available by clicking on this link OBJECTS.STK.

For younger Students such as Nursery and Kindergarten the card is opened ahead of time by older students or the teacher.  Remember that in HyperStudio that Control-M will remove the title bar so the card is fully blank for the students.

Students in Grade One used a recording sheet to record their "finds".  There is a template for the recording sheet obj_rec.pub but you could design your own.  It is simply an 8 square grid.  This grid should be handed out to students ahead of time as they will record on it. This publisher file is available by clicking on OBJ_REC.PUB.

Open HyperStudio.  File/Open Stack and open the Objects.stk  from the shared/read only  directory.  Press Control M to remove the title bar at the top of the card.  Students are instructed to randomly click on the card till an animation appears. 

Nursery/Kindergarten students continue clicking to find 8 different objects.  Students can be stopped and asked periodically what they have found so far.  This will inspire the other students to keep looking.

Grade One students are asked to stop when they find an object and record pictorially on their grid when they find something.  Again students can be stopped and asked periodically  what they have found so far.  This will inspire the other students to keep looking. Students who finish first are asked to write the words below the pictures.

Near the end of the period when most have found all 8 Objects, the students are put into pairs and told to test one another on finding the Objects by saying "Find me the door" and then the partner has to remember spatially where the animation was on the card and show their partner.

As an extension teacher may wish to save animations that are particular to a curriculum unit such as animals or transportation.  HyperStudio has many animations and there are lots of animations available on the Web.  Older Students could design curriculum specific animations for a younger grade using an animation program like Microsoft Gif Animator and the Windows Paint program.

To create your own card with animations in HyperStudio go to File/New Stack and Title Your Card Appropriately.  To add an Animation Go to Objects Add a Button. Choose the hidden button and place it on the card.  Click on the Background and then under Actions Choose "Play Animation".  Choose Disk Library.  And follow the on-screen instructions to complete your animation and say Done.  When making subsequent buttons try to place them far apart and in obscure places on the card so students have to experiment with clicking and finding. (For more information on making animations refer to the HyperStudio Manual.)