Light travels faster than sound

Who knew chapsticks could be so much fun?

What a great afternoon we had today with the primary 4-7 class. Their current topic is movies and films - so much scope there to work with in the context of the Curriculm for Excellence. It hardly takes a quantum leap of imagination to realise you can get art, ICT, language and any amounts of other exciting things in there…

I’ve been tasked with the science and technology side of things - but what to do? How about a wee bit of social history to start with? People and place - Victorian Zoetropes anyone? How about we actually make one ? Thank you Scholastic, I think we will…

Where to next with this one then? Well, having made - and more importantly understood - a simple zoetrope today we can move onto constucting our own picture strips to include in a cd-zoetrope (see the Howtoons.com video) which will allow the children to gain a deeper understanding of the animation process in turn leading us into the possibilities of stop-motion work and beyond…the world is our lobster [sic]…