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The scene is set.
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The keypoints of the running boy.
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Activity Background

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	Full project no longer online		Maree Leopold Roxburgh Homestead Primary School, Victoria, Australia.
View Kahootz Xpression		View Kahootz Movie

	Author : Burak Download Kahootz Xpression To download and view a Kahootz Xpression, you must have Kahootz Software or Demo Version.		Quicktime Movie (93 KB)
Key Learning Areas		Theme

	SOSE, Science, Technology (Information)		Marine Environments

Year Level		Student Age

	Year 6
Ability Level		Class Size

	Mixed		30
Computer Access		Duration

	Children have access to 4 computers in their classroom. They also have a 1 hour computer session each week in the computer lab.		8 weeks. Of this 5 sessions were spent introducing Kahootz skills and 3 sessions were spent creating their project. The children had never used Kahootz before this.

Rationale

This unit involves the children creating a marine environment which demonstrates the Kahootz skills they have learnt and also shows their understandings of the marine environment.
This project was the culmination of a term�s work in ICT. It complemented the work that they were doing in their classroom on the theme Marine Environments. Classroom teachers used this activity as one of their activities for the unit.

Student Tasks

The activity was simply �Create a Marine environment that shows your Kahootz skills and your understanding of the Marine World.� This was a very open-ended task and it created a lot of discussion as to what they could include/show in their Xpression. They were able to complete the following :
	Participate in lessons designed to teach skills in Kahootz-using controls, objects, perspective, swatching, animation and keypoints.

	Discussions of what they could put in their world.
	Used a storyboard to plan their world and what was to happen.
	Explore aquatic worlds and decide the one that best fits their plan.
	Choose appropriate objects for the world (boats, fish, sharks, swimmers�.)
	Keypoint and animate these objects.
	Present their Xpression to the class explaining what it was about

The keypoints of the speed boat.
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Sharks in chase.
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Involvement for Xpression Participant

	View classmates Xpression and make comments about it (whole class).
	Explore each other�s marine world-this on a one to one basis.
	Discuss the story told and suggest improvements.
	Discuss the skills needed to make the world.
	Work together to refine the world eg keypointing and then add to the world in a collaborative manner.

Each participant needs to:

	Have an understanding of a marine environment
	Have basic skills in Kahootz
	Have a plan for their world before starting the Xpression
	Be willing to work with others to make improvements to their world and to help others with their worlds.

Learning Outcomes for Student Creator

	Being able to use skills they have learnt in Kahootz to manipulate digital objects.

	Demonstrating their understandings and concepts of the Marine Environments they have studied.

	Building confidence in concepts of perception, depth and scale, keypointing, both object and world.

Collaborative Potential

	Children could work with a partner or in a small group to make the Xpression.

	Children could add to the Xpression or make changes to keypointing, objects.

	Each Xpression can be shared with other students in the class or school.
	Children can write a script to go with their Xpression and present it to other classes.

	Children can work with a younger student to explore concepts.
	The Xpression can be posted to the school Kahootz page and shared with other schools-perhaps ones located near the ocean.