Butterfly Project
This uses a template to modify a file that gives a result like this, using very simple techniques
You can obtain this file - for the PC, and for the Mac - from Geoff Dellow at
geoff@tygh.co.uk . This is amongst a group of copyright templates which can
be used in the classroom on payment of a small fee.
To use this, go to edit symbols and choose wing. You can redisign this as long as you keep the left hand boundary of the "wing " in the same place. Good results can be achieved by just dragging and changing the fill colour.
More adventurous students will want to alter the path of the Butterfly on Scene 1 - take care that the butterfly remains attached at both ends of the guide and that the guide is reasonably simple!
Year 4 (eight year olds) designed the following butterflies in this way at their first attempt at using PCs.
If you can't see moving images below but just see a grey screen, you need to get the small Flash plugin
If you would like to know more about
Contact
us and ask for information about learning Flash.
We have started tuition over the phone in the use of flash
so as to support you in the classroom. We cover the basics in five 30 min. lessons.
You can share in the fun of learning to use this exciting software - here!
Other Schools mainly Primary, are encouraging their students to use Flash - Have a look at the great skill and fun being had by the students at Edleston Primary School, Crewe
Excellent work is also being done by the students at Ambleside Primary School
( If you have students at school working with flash, we'd be glad to put a link here to it - let us know the URL! )
And here's what a 10 year old did after only one hour at All Souls Primary School - everyone likes seeing their name in bright lights!
There's no guessing what my favourite colour is!
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