There's No Place Like Home

Students will storyboard and research information about an animal and its habitat. Students will research two other habitats for his/her animal to visit and state information about all three habitats. Students will need to design and decorate three shoe boxes to feature the three habitats using clay, magazines, construction paper, etc. Students will also need to create the animal out of clay. Characters need to be between 1 1/2 inches to 3 inches tall. Characters too tall will not stand up. (Tip--put magnets in their feet and place the base on a cookie sheet for a floor.)

1. Using PowerPoint, students will type and describe in one or two sentences the animal's habitat.
2. Create another slide and type information about the first habitat the animal visits.
3. The next slide will have information about the next habitat the animal visits.
4. The last slide will be back to the animal's habitat and type of one or two sentences about the animal's habitat.
5. Using a digital camera and a tripod, (it is important to make sure the camera does not move) students will take pictures of the animal in his/her habitat. To do this, move the animal 1/4 inch and take a picture...move it again 1/4 inch and take another picture. Continue this process until you have between 20-30 pictures. (for example, seal swimming around in water)
6. Set up the animal in the next habitat shoe box and repeat step #5.
7. Set up the animal in the next habitat shoe box and repeat step #5.
8. Set up the animal in the orginal habitat and repeat step #5.
9. Set up folder on desktop and transfer pictures from the camera to the computer.
10. Import all pictures into PowerPoint making sure the pictures are in order.
11. Move the slides that describe the habitats into the proper position in the PowerPoint.
12. Using the drawing tool, add word bubbles to the slides if desired.
13. Add music if desired.
14. Set up the timing using 0 to 1 second automatically for each picture.