June 13-17th - Adventures in Animation II

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June 13-17th - Adventures in Animation II Parent Show Projects

Would you like to be the director of a 3D movie? Would you like to program a robot to create spin art or hit a ball? In this session you will use free software from CMU called Alice to allow you to make 3D animations and simple games. And, you will use LEGO NXT robots to solve a series of challenges. For more information on Alice see http://www.alice.org. For more information on LEGO robots see http://mindstorms.lego.com/. You will learn the basics of object-oriented programming: classes, objects, and methods (behaviors). You will also learn some basic computing concepts: repetition (loops), conditionals, and variables.

Monday June 13 9am - 3pm

15 minutes pre surveys http://findings.GaComputes-MS-Pre-L.sgizmo.com/s3/
30 minutes Kinesthic Learning Activity: boolean game or Flowchart hopscotch (have them say their name and something they like to do)
30 minutes - show the kids lightbot2 http://armorgames.com/play/6061/light-bot-20 (click on basics to start and do all 6 basic levels if possible) and have them try to get through some of the first levels using pair programming. Also see http://ice-web.cc.gatech.edu/dl/?q=node/628 for a video to show you how to get started.
15 minutes explain the LEGO NXT kits (explain that 2x means 2 of that part, explain the sizes are the number of studs on the lego parts and show how to measure axles, show the 3 different black connectors that look similar and explain how to tell them apart, show how to use the parts list to find which bin a part can be found in)
1.5 hours try some easy things building and programming projects listed at http://nxtprograms.com/projects1.html. Scroll to the bottom to see the difficulty ratings. Try things like the top spinner, mini-golf, baseball batter, and spin art.
lunch 12 - 1pm
1 hour build the robot that matches the instructions in the kit (up to before you add the sensors)
1 hour do the first 7 challenges that come with the software and try to program the robot to go through coures outlined in blue painters tape - First NXT challenges
If the kids get bored do some CS unplugged activity like the card flip magic trick http://www.csunplugged.org/error-detection

Tues June 14 9am - 3pm

30 minutes - Do a CS Unplugged activity (like http://www.csunplugged.org/minimal-spanning-trees)
1 hour do the scavanger hunt
1 hour -Making a NXT robot dance show some movies from RoboCup Jr (seehttp://rcj.robocup.org/videos.html)
30 minutes - Let the students add the light sensor, do challenges 16 and 17, and try to follow a black line on white foam board.
lunch 1 hour
1 hour Introduce the kids to the rescue competition from RoboCupJr. and challenge them to try to identify the victims (by stopping and playing a tune) as they navagate through the course following the black line. They will have to try to find the line again when it disappears.
1 hour pick a more advanced thing to build from http://nxtprograms.com/projects1.html or continue work on rescue or dance.

Wed June 14

30 minutes -Flowchart hopscotch or Kinesthic Learning Activity: boolean game (whichever you didn't do the first day)
30 minutes - show the students how to get started with Storytelling Alice (creating objects, positioning them, and invoking methods on them - see http://ice-web.cc.gatech.edu/dl/?q=node/165 and http://ice-web.cc.gatech.edu/dl/?q=node/169)
30 minutes - show what they have created.
30 minutes - Show them how to do more than one thing at a time (Do Together). Show them how to change the duration of the animation. Show them how to create their own methods in Alice http://ice-web.cc.gatech.edu/dl/?q=node/276
30 minutes - challenge the students to create their own methods and show them
30 minutes - talk about storyboarding (planning your story and breaking it into methods) let the kids work on storybording
lunch
afternoon recreation

Thursday June 15

30 minutes - Show a dot diva profile like http://www.dotdiva.org/profiles/kendal.html to show kids some jobs in computing that deal with animation
30 minutes - Do a CS unplugged activity like http://www.csunplugged.org/turing-test
15 mintues - show students how to use a for loop http://ice-web.cc.gatech.edu/dl/?q=node/283 also show them how to use a while loop http://ice-web.cc.gatech.edu/dl/?q=node/282
45 minutes - let students work on a story with a for or while loop
15 minutes - show students how to create more than 1 scene http://ice-web.cc.gatech.edu/dl/?q=node/285
45 minutes - let students work on a story with more than one scene
1 hour lunch
30 minutes - show students how to create a new class with new methods http://ice-web.cc.gatech.edu/dl/?q=node/228
1.5 hours - challenge students to work in groups to create a story with several characters and have them each work on the methods for one character and save that character out as a new class and then combine the saved classes into one Alice world to tell the story.

Friday, June 4th 9am - 3pm (parent show at 2:00pm)

30 minutes - Do a CS unplugged activity http://www.csunplugged.org/sorting-networks
most of day - let students work on what they want to for the parent show
15 minutes - post surveys: http://findings.GaComputes-MS-Post-L.sgizmo.com/s3/
1 hour - have the students show off their Alice stories and robot dances and/or rescue to the parents. Give out the ACM career brochures.

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