Choose one activity from each step.
STEP 1: Animate your own artwork 1. Make a flip book! Take a small pad of paper. On each piece of paper, starting from the back and moving forward, draw a picture. On the next page (moving forward!) draw the same picture but slightly different. Keep drawing on each page altering your drawing a little. When you are done, flip through your pictures (starting from the back) to see your pictures in action! 2. Try stop action animation. This is sort of like your flip book but with clay (or play-do, or small moveable toys). You can watch films like Wallace and Gromit for samples of clay stop action movies (or “claymation”). Now it’s your turn! Create a small set, choose your characters and make a short film (it doesn’t have to be any longer than 10 seconds if you want). What will your character do? Take a picture. Move your character just slightly and take a new picture. Keep going until your characters action is complete. Upload your pictures to a computer and make a slideshow. Set the timer on the slide show to 0 seconds between pictures. Press play and enjoy your movie! STEP 2: Dig into video game development 1. Try computer program that allows you to create an interactive story or game using characters they provide. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has one called Scratch. Carnegie Mellon University has one called Alice. You can search for other free programs too. 2. Take a look at one of these videos to learn about game designers: Day at Work: Video Game Designer How the inventor of Mario designs a game STEP 3: Try the science of amusement park rides 1. 1. Catapult something! Make a catapult out of household items… check out instructions below. 2. Look into centrifugal force. Did you know if you fill a bucket with water and spin it in a circle the water won’t splash out? It’s all due to centrifugal force. Try it in your backyard. Learn how centrifugal force and amusement park rides are related. STEP 4: Create your own special effects 1. Make a blue screen (or “Green” screen). Learn about chroma-key technology called “blue-screen”. Once you learn about it, try it for yourself. Try putting a picture of yourself or someone else in all sorts of different backgrounds. 2. Make 3-d glasses! (Get an adult to help.) First find an old or cheap pair of sunglasses. Carefully pop out the plastic lenses. Now cut 2 holes the same size as the lenses in a clear sheet of transparency, cellophane or acetate. Use markers to color one lens red and the other blues. Put your new lens in the frame. Put the red on the left and blue on the right. Try them out with a 3D photo! STEP 5: Surf a sound wave 1. Go on an elephant hike! Take two 16 ounce paper or plastic cups. Cut a pair of 2 inch slits down the side of each. They should be about an inch apart. This creates a flap. Cut off the flap. The opening is where your ear will sit. The bottom of the cup should be at the back of your ear. Hike for 5 minutes without them and see what you hear. Now hike 5 more minutes with your elephant ears. How did your hearing change? 2. Play around with GarageBand or similar computer program that allows you to layer instrumental sounds and riffs to create your own musical composition.
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