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The Three Steps

The Three Steps title scene.
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The first step.
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Activity Background

View Project		Teacher and School

	Click here to go to the project		Maree Leopold Roxburgh Homestead Primary School, Victoria, Australia.
View Kahootz Xpression		View Kahootz Movie

	Author : James Download Kahootz Xpression To download and view a Kahootz Xpression, you must have Kahootz Software or Demo Version.		Quicktime Movie (185 KB)
Key Learning Areas		Theme

	SOSE, Health, Technology (Information)		"Setting the Scene" Program
Year Level		Student Age

	Grades 5 and 6		9 - 12 years
Ability Level		Class Size

	mixed		25 - 27 children in each class
Computer Access		Duration

	Children have access to 4 computers in their classrooms. They also have a 1 hour computer session each week in the ICT Centre.		This activity was set during the children's ICT lessons in Term 1. It involved 5 sessions in the ICT centre and time was allowed by class teachers during Integrated Studies time for the initial planning and also for working on Xpressions.

Rationale

During the first month of each school year, our school has a whole school focus. "Setting the Scene" provides students and teachers with a program that establishes the right conditions for learning in all classes and ensures that common goals are being achieved across the school. The activities that students and teachers work through include:

	Quality Learning-students use a range of tools that enhance classroom organization and personal learning.

	You Can Do it-a program that provides children with the foundations of achievement and social and emotional well being.

	3 Steps-a whole school program that provides guidelines for both playground and classroom behaviour for students and teachers.

	Health and Hydration-a program that reinforces and maintains an awareness of a healthy diet, nutrition and the importance of drinking water.

	Keeping Roxy Beautiful-a program to make the children aware of the need to keep our school attractive and a great place to learn.

Student Tasks

This project was given to the Grade 5 and 6 children in their ICT session as part of the Setting the Scene program. They were to create a Kahootz Xpression that would teach younger children one of the aspects of the program. They needed to demonstrate their understanding of the concept and at the same time they were to show their developing skills in using Kahootz. Grade 6 children had previous experience with Kahootz during term 4, 2005. Grade 5 children had only "played" with the program previously.
Children who selected the 3 Steps for their project could choose either the 3 steps in the classroom or outside in the yard. Children worked with others to storyboard their ideas before starting work on the computer. Skills were not taught or shown in isolation but as needed.

During this project children:

	Discussed what the criteria should be for this task and how it would be assessed. From these discussions an assessment rubric was developed.

	Discussed with others what the 3 steps was and how they could best show it.
	Used a storyboard to plan their scenes.
	Developed understanding of Kahootz skills such as-using the controls, placing objects in scenes, resizing objects, making new objects by swatching and grouping, perspective, animations, keypointing (both world and object), 3D text and the notepad.

	Chose appropriate objects for the school ground or classroom, or adapted objects.

	Keypointed and animated these objects.
	Keypointed and animated these objects.
	Presented their Xpression to another class to help them to understand the 3 Steps and used the feedback to make improvements.

	Completed an assessment rubric.
	Completed an assessment rubric.
	Viewed their Xpression with the intended audience.
	Viewed their Xpression with the intended audience.

The younger children -Prep, Grade 1 and Grade 2 children who viewed the Xpression were asked to explain what the Xpression was showing them.
This highlighted to the Grade 5 and 6 children how successfully they had shown the 3 Steps.

In the playground.
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The third step.
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Involvement for Xpression Participant

	Can relate their own experiences to the Xpression.
	Can show what they understand the 3 Steps to mean.
	Can give suggestions for improvements to Xpressions.
	Sharing of learned skills within the group e.g. grouping of objects, the timing involved in keypointing many objects in their scenes.

Each participant needs to:

	Have basic Kahootz skills. Be able to work in a 3D world.
	Have an understanding of what the 3 Steps are and how they have used them-prior experience.

	Skills as above.

Learning Outcomes for Student Creator

	Develop and use skills they have learnt in Kahootz.
	Demonstrate their understanding of the 3 Steps and other "Setting the Scene" topics.

	Build confidence in concepts of perception, depth and scale, keypointing and grouping.
	� Problem solving skills and higher order thinking
	Gain positive feedback from their audience.

Collaborative Potential

	Children from different grade levels could work together to develop an Xpression that shows a "Setting the Scene" concept.

	Opportunity to share with other schools that also use 3 Steps or You Can Do It program.