I LOVED this idea of having kiddos create kinetic drawings inspired by Heather Hansen.
First, what a great art integration lesson. Focusing on a specific artist and style while at the same time working on gross and fine motor skills, and body movement. As an Educational Technology Specialist I wanted to incorporate video recording since Heather Hansen's pieces are a result of a performance and wanted to capture the students' performances.
I started with presenting this slide presentation to a class of first graders.
We looked at samples of finished pieces and a few of her videos. Then we talked about time lapse video, what it means, and how they access that feature on their ipad.
Once they had an idea of what they were going to do then they teamed up, one student would create their kinetic drawing while the other would be the videographer. I simply grabbed white butcher paper, enough for each student, and crayons. I would grab extra pieces of paper because sometimes students videos don't turn out, either they forget to set the camera on time lapse, or confuse the on/off button, so extra paper is essential. Also it gets a bit loud with student laughter so be prepared.
After the students were done with their videos I logged into the google drive app and uploaded their video to my drive and then I compiled them into one video using imovie and then upload to youtube.
Here is our finished project
