Hello everyone and welcome back to, once again, another blog post!
For the past few weeks, I’ve been working hard in Scimatics on an ionic and covalent compound animation. Throughout this post I will be talking about how and what I did to make this awesome animation.
First off, as usual, we started with a MindMap. I think, as usual, this was a very good way to start off the project. It showed us what we already knew and what knowledge we had left to build. We already had a few terms and concepts learned as last year in grade 8, we did an
atom project. You can check it out here. Anyway, below it my project MindMap ⬇
Next up, we started with the workbooks. While this was tedious and definitely not my favourite part of this project, I think it was really important for building my understating of ionic and covalent bonding. We would continue to work on this throughout the project until almost the
end. Below is some of the work that I did in the workbooks ⬇
Next, we did an experiment. This was a really good intro into animating. Before we were allowed to preform the experiment, we had to animate the procedure to make sure we knew what we were doing and to make sure we didn’t do anything stupid. I tried create an animation that displayed the process an experiment. This was a very important part of this project because I learnt important animation techniques that were very useful in the final animation.
Click Here for experiment animation!!!!
When I was finished creating the animation I was able to do the actual experiment. I won’t be going into detail about the experiment (because everything was stated within my very snazzy animation above ⬆️ ). After the animation was completed I wrote down the result and process into a document.
Next, the second milestone the story board. From my point of view I think this milestone was a great way to build a foundation of what to include in my animation. Personally, I drew a 14 frame storyboard, in which was a rough sketch of the ionic and covalent bonds I would be including in my animation. The story I created was about a phosphorus atom and 5 chlorine atoms that went looking in search of others to make in not lonely. This creation to a little while to create, but I really think it was a really useful milestone to help me create a final product.
When I reflect on this milestone I understand that I used the curricular competency “Processing and Analyzing”. I know that I achieved this milestone/keystone within an accomplished understanding because I created accurate Bohr models. I knew I could have improved my use of this competency in the final animation (which I actually feel I did). Overall this storyboard was a great foundation of my learning.
Once I completed the storyboard I moved onto the creation of the final product, the animation. To create the animation I used the app, Keynote. To start the process I drew my atoms inanother app called ProCreate. I then transported my drawings into keynote for an instant alpha. The drawings were then placed into Keynote and put into a position for magic move. Magic Move is an animation technique where you duplicate a page and an object moves throughout those two pages. Throughout this animation I created a voiceover that I tried to use the curricular competency “Communicating” in. The way I showed a solid understanding of this competency was by giving a detailed voiceover that showed the bonding process between atoms.
Click here for amazing animation!!!
Overall, I enjoyed learning from this project and I was able to answer the driving question “How do the electron arrangement of atoms determine the chemical and physical properties of elements and compounds?”. My animation answered this question because electrons move around sharing (or giving) electrons to one another causing them to become compounds. This means that the place where the electrons are do control how the chemical and physical properties of an atom is represented.