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 * === Grade Level === || Grade 8 ||
 * === Current Project === || Animate a Change Process ||
 * ===** Current Learning Standards Addressed **=== || 21C.O.5-8.1.LS.2 **Student interprets abstract visuals and creates products (e.g. digital storytelling) that reflect a growing understanding of visual language and require the effective use of tools** (e.g. cropped photos, original charts and graphs, well-chosen images from databases, video clips).

21C.O.5-8.1.LS3 **Student presents thoughts, ideas, and conceptual understanding efficiently, accurately and in a compelling manner and enhances the oral or written presentation through the use of technology**.

21C.O.5-8.1.TT.7 **Student uses advanced features and utilities of presentation software (e.g.**, design templates, design layouts (fonts/ **colors/ backgrounds) animation and graphics, inserting pictures**, objects, movies, sound, charts, hyperlinks, and graphs) **to create an original product**. ||
 * ===** Summary of Current Lesson **=== || To address Science standards, students will animate changes over time i.e. the development of a town or a biological process. ||
 * === Analysis of indicators of Engaged Learning in Current Lesson (strengths and opportunities for improvement). === || The lesson is standards-based and incorporates both technology and cross-curricular activities.Since students create an original project from a list of suggested topics, it does not emerge from students' curiosity. Students should be allowed brainstorming sessions/input to animate a change of their own choosing. The samples given are fairly simple animations and a more-involved sample should be presented. ||
 * === Summary of Technology Uses in Current Lesson === || Students create a background in Microsoft PowerPoint and duplicate that background on x number of slides. They move an object to produce animation. ||

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 * === NEW Adaptation Title === || Animated Science Storybooks ||
 * === Learning Standards Added (if any) === || any and all Science standards for grade levels k-8 ||
 * === Summary of Your Adaptation === || Students are given a copy of the Science CSOs for their chosen grade level. Students choose a CSO that picques their curiosity to animate. The CSO should involve a process of change. Students will then develop a PowerPoint that animates the changing process with a narrative utilizing Voice Thread. ||
 * ===** How you strengthened the use of technology and the Indicators of Engaged Learning **=== || Because students will have a choice of grade level and topic the activity has become student-driven. The presentations will be shared with the appropriate grade level teachers for classroom use. The students assume professional roles as the science experts. Task concludes with a performance/product to be used in teaching younger students scientific principles. These storybooks will be linked to the school website for easy access with the final goal to create a county resource linking projects created by students from all the schools. An alternative would be to create the presentation on an iPad using the Flip It! application which creates a flip book. Either project could be published as a podcast. ||