Technology is what makes the world go round and for nearly 70 students in Evansville and the surrounding area, technology is all they are going to talk about and do this week. The students are enrolled in the EVSC’s week-long Creativity Camp at Highland Elementary School.
The camp, which is sponsored by Highland’s PTA, is for students entering grades 3 through 6 and includes five, week-long tracts: Photography, iPad Video/Stop Motion Animation, 3D Printing, Minecraft and Coding. Each tract is taught by an EVSC licensed teacher and gives students a hands-on and up-close look at different technology programs and software. In each tract, students will work on projects that they will complete by the end of the week.
Another Creativity Camp is scheduled for next week at Scott Elementary School.
More information on each tract can be found below.
Beginning Photography, Art Room: Students will learn basics of digital photography and photo editing using Apple iPads and Adobe Photoshop. We will experiment with composition and various lighting techniques. Student will learn basics in photo editing using selection techniques/masks and adjustment layers. Students will create and bring home a digital portfolio of their work.
iPad Video: Lights, Camera, iPad! and Stop Motion Animation, Room 23:Â Students will learn to shoot video and edit on the iPad. Emphasis will be placed on the tools to create and edit video on the iPad and the week will culminate with a video creation produced and edited by the participating students. As part of Stop Motion Animation, students will learn the workflow of creating a Stop Motion movie. Students will work in a small group to write a story plot and animate it using an iPad Stop Motion app. Time will be spent building the scene background, taking LOADS of pictures with the iPad, recording sound effects and editing the movie. Students will enjoy a movie premiere on Friday where they will reveal their Stop Motion film to the class.
| 3D Printing and Engineering, Room 16: Students will get the opportunity to work through the engineering design process while working on their problem solving skills. Students will be presented with real world problems and create ideas to solve them. They will then use computers to design solutions. Did we mention that they will be able to print them on our state of the art 3D printer? Not only that, but students will have access to 3D scanning, which can allow them to scan and print themselves.
Minecraft Mania, Room 20: In their quest to become Minecraft Masters, students will become problem solvers and leaders! Students will be asked to develop their leadership skills throughout our game-playing, using role-playing, goal setting, problem solving techniques and more. Activities will also include curricular connections, including language arts and math. |
Coding is Cool, Media Center: In this class students will learn the basics of computer coding. We will starting with the common points of all computer coding and then progress into the basics of HTML and how to create a simple website. Following this students will explore coding for robotics application – both drag and drop and Javascript. Students will test their robotics code using Sphero robotic balls. At the end of the week students will have a better understanding of the language programmers use to “talk†to computers. They will also have coded a simple website as well as controlled a robot with code.
