Choreo Graph Activity 5: Choreo Graph Your Own Scene

Angles of Rotation, Translations, and Coordinate Grids

Expected Activity Time

Part 1: Choreograph Your Own Scene (40 minutes)

Part 2: Create An Alternative Story (20-40 minutes)

Materials and Prep

• Choreo Graph Your Scene Student Sheets
• iPad with Choreo Graphapp
• Wifi access for sharing to other iPads or the online project space
• Graph Paper
• Pre-requisites>: introduction to angle measurement, rotation, pivot point, and translations.

Introducing the Activity

Choreo Graph allows you to create a wide array of scenes with objects that you animate to move from place to place. Create a small story that involves a couple of landmarks or objects, a starting point, midpoint, and an ending point. Share the math you used to create your story.

To Do

Part 1: Choreo Graph Your Own Scene (40 minutes)

Have students:

• Create their own stories. Use Choreo Graph to take pictures of objects, people, drawings, or still photos to use as landmarks and characters in their scene.
• Trace around props and characters and set them up in scenes on Choreo Graph stage.
• Using translation and the graph controller, deliberately “program” their main character(s) to move throughout the scene in a way that tells a story.
• Examine the math behind the scenes and fill in the provided chart

Part 2: Create an Alternative Story (20-40 minutes)

Have students:

• Find alternate paths or routes in their stories, and fill in the chart with the data for the new routes. How do the routes compare?
• Reset the scenes once again and pass the story to a friend to find a new route. Fill in the chart with the other student’s data.
• How do the two compare? Are they mathematically similar?

Discussion

While students are creating and sharing their story scenes, listen and look for:

• Mention of coordinates in describing how their main characters move
• “I had to rotate it – ___ degrees or +___ degrees to get the movement I wanted”
• How they move something on the stage by attending to each node on the graph.

Extensions and Inquiring Further

Using mathematical language that describes the movement of their object or character through their scene, have a student “read aloud” a portion of their story. See if classmates can recreate the some of the movements in the scene just by listening to what the “reader” describes.

Name: __________________________                  Date: _____________

Part 1: Choreo Graph Your Own Scene

Create a small story that involves a couple of landmarks, with a starting point, a midpoint, and an ending point.

• First, create your story with landmarks (e.g., racetrack, outer space, or a dollhouse, treasure map, or anything!)
• You can draw the landmarks, find pictures on the Internet, use real objects, or snap photos in Choreo Graph. Trace around your landmarks and set up your scene on the Choreo Graph stage.
• Program one or two moving objects that will navigate your scene. Examine the math behind the path your objects take. What rotations did you use? What translations? (Fill in the chart provided.)

Story Scene: Select/create the scene for your story.

• Racetrack
• Town Map
• Outer space
• Dollhouse
• Treasure map
• Other (Create your own): _______________________________________

Story Landmarks & Objects:List at least three landmarks and two moving objects that you will feature in your story.

Landmark 1 __________________

Landmark 2 __________________

Landmark 3 __________________

Moving Object 1 _________________

Moving Object 2 _________________

Name: __________________________                  Date: _____________

Part 1: Choreo Graph Your Own Scene

Story Description: Sketch and describe the beginning, middle, and end of your story. Add a description to explain what is visually occurring in your scene.

Name: __________________________                  Date: _____________

Part 1: Choreo Graph Your Own Scene

Math Behind the Story:For your moving objects, fill out the chart below describing the math behind their movement (break down movement into different actions or steps)

Moving Object #1: ______________________________

Final Coordinates = ______________________

Name: __________________________                  Date: _____________

Part 1: Choreo Graph Your Own Scene

Moving Object #2: ______________________________

Final Coordinates = ______________________

Name: __________________________                  Date: _____________

Part 2: Create an Alternative Story

• Create alternate routes for the moving objects, and fill in the chart with the data for the new routes.
• Reset your scene and pass your story to a friend and let them find their own new route. Fill in the chart with your friend’s data.

Moving Object #1: ______________________________

Final Coordinates = ______________________

Name: __________________________                  Date: _____________

Part 2: Create an Alternative Story

Moving Object #2: ______________________________

Final Coordinates = ______________________

Name: __________________________                  Date: _____________

Part 2: Create an Alternative Story: Classmate’s Story

Moving Object #1: ______________________________

Final Coordinates = ______________________

Name: __________________________                  Date: _____________

Part 2: Create an Alternative Story: Classmate’s Story

Moving Object #2: ______________________________

Final Coordinates = ______________________

Name: __________________________                  Date: _____________

Part 1: Choreo Graph Your Own Scene &

Part 2: Create an Alternative Story

Reflection Questions:

1. What are some similarities and differences between your original route and your alternative route?

2. How do the routes compare mathematically?

3. How does your route compare to your classmates’ routes in your story? How do the different routes affect the story you wanted to tell?

App Features

Begin by entering Make Some Moves. In Build mode, students will:

• Take pictures
• Trace and cut out parts of your photo that you want to animate
• Add graphic or musical elements below:

In Animate mode, students will use the:

Graph controllers:Choreo Graph uses key frames much like other movie editing software. At each point in the key frame, the student can set how each part of the animation rotates over time. Each node on the line graph below the stage represents the position of that part at a specific time. Stretch the points up and down to set the degrees of rotation. The steeper the line on the graph, the faster the part moves. Students can also set the location of their animated parts by selecting the part they want to move, choosing a node on the line graph (or moment in the animation), and then dragging the part to a new position on the stage. They can set the location of parts for the entire animation sequence by repeating this process.

Toggle on math tools to notice:

-Degrees each part has rotated

-Path the main parts moved

– Coordinates for location of each part