Bringing Science to Life: Animation and Poetry

Students will learn to use digital cameras to create animations of scientific and natural processes. Students will start by writing and recording poems, which use metaphors about natural processes that they are learning about in science class, such as erosion and deposition, the water cycle, or DNA and atoms. Students will then animate clay, drawings, and found objects to demonstrate these processes. The final product will be their finished animations combined with an audio recording of their poems that can be posted online and taken home as a DVD.