The
BPS SLF Lego team have been getting very creative with our WeDo Lego kit over the last two weeks in school to prepare for the Scottish Learning Festival at the SECC on Wednesday 22nd September.
Advertising!
We will be appearing on the RM stand between 10am and 12.15pm at The Scottish Learning Festival and in order to advertise ourselves we had a little competition to design a flier which RM would have printed for us to hand out to passers by on Wednesday! We each created our own flier with a Lego theme and then we got together and discussed which one we thought would represent BPS the best. After much discussion we decided that Lewis' flier would be the winning entry and we have uploaded them all onto the SLF Lego Glow group with Lewis' flier being the one to be printed!
Construction!
We decided to create Lego models based around the theme of our World War II topic and last Thursday we completed our model Spitfire plane which connects via USB to the computer to both power the motorised propellor and enabled us to create sound bites which, after much discussion about timings, meant that our Spitfire sounds like it can drop bombs and fire guns!
After this we split our group into two; one group focused on creating extras using other Lego pieces to make a scene from the Clydebank Blitz, whilst the other group got busy on creating an instruction manual on how to build our Spitfire.
Our Clydebank Blitz scene is now complete - it has a large crane like the Titan Crane at Clydebank and it has a ship which we have tried to make look like an old replica sitting in the River Clyde. We researched old ships and cranes online and that gave us some ideas for our construction. We think that with the help of some green screen technology (as well as a green jumper sleeve and a green rubber glove!), our Spitfire should be able to fly over our river scene to Clydebank with its propellor spinning, firing guns and this time STOP the Luftwaffe from creating a path of destruction similar to that of 70 years ago!
Instruction Manual!
We completed our instruction manual on Friday there and it is fantastic! We deconstructed our Spitfire and using the same style as a real Lego instruction booklet, we drew each section of the plane, took photos of them and illustrated how it all fits together. We then used Comic Life to create our own Lego instruction booklet using all of our drawings and photographs. We have inserted captions as a guide and we are looking forward to seeing if our class mates can build our Spitfire from it too!!
If you would like to see our instruction booklet or try to make the Spitfire for yourself, click on the link below. (It is a large file so please be patient!)
We can't wait for SLF Lego on Wednesday and we are really excited to find out what sorts of animation and green screen technology films we will be creating too!
Inayah, Jamie, Paul, Lewis, Victoria, Abigail, Tom, Rennie and Mrs Russell!
The Stop Frame Animation challenge let us create a model based on a giant creepy spider and then we continued to reposition and photograph it until our short film sequences were complete - our creepy spidery models liked to eat EVERYTHING!!
The Green Screen filming using iMovie was a favourite with everyone who tried it out. We got to film ourselves as robots and then make us appear in different images on screen. We then altered our voices to make ourselves sound even more roboty and we added musical effects. The finished films are hilarious!!
