ABSTRACT
The Moving Picture Science Show is a CD-ROM of pupils’ multimedia work. It was the culmination of a project called ‘Using Animation to Help Develop Scientific Concepts’ and was made by 165 pupils in sixteen classes in fourteen schools in the London Borough of Hackney over the autumn and spring terms 1996-7. Hackney is an inner-city borough in London with a large mixture of ethnic groups, many languages spoken and a large population of pupils for whom English is not their mother tongue. The CD-ROM shows the final outcome of the work, which is interesting and engaging. What is unseen, however, is the process that went into its creation-which is where the learning took place. This chapter will describe how two of the classes put together their multimedia pieces, and will look at the effect of using animation in science both in terms of motivation and in terms of learning scientific concepts.
