It's almost impossible to distinguish perfect flowers from imperfect flowers just by looking at their outward appearances. By using the camera on iPad, Rattanaporn taught her students to create a simple GIF to understand why perfect and imperfect flowers reproduce differently.
First, Rattanaporn asked students to snap a picture of a rose and a lily with Camera on their iPad, then import the images into Keynote.
Next, they traced the flowers in Keynote. Learn how to trace on top of a photo in Chapter 5 of the Everyone Can Create Drawing guide.
Students then labelled the different parts of the flowers. Learn how to create a sketchnote in Chapter 2 of the Everyone Can Create Drawing guide.
Next, they dissected the flowers and photographed them, then imported them into Keynote. Once again, students traced and labelled the different parts within, paying special attention to the similarities between the flowers.
Rattanaporn then introduced the pumpkin flower and had students compare it with the first two flowers using animated GIFs. Learn how to create GIFs in Chapter 7 of the Everyone Can Create Photo guide.
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Finally, students presented their GIFs using the Live Video feature in Keynote and shared how the differences between the flowers would lead them to reproduce differently.
With iPad, my students can pinch to zoom in to photos and take a closer look at what they might miss at first glance. This sharpens their observational skills and heightens their attention to detail, which are critical to the study of Science.
