Good afternoon! I am Alicia, one of
the Pickles! We are eager to show you the thrilling activities we
have been working on throughout this last week. As each pickle was in
charge of one of the three main tasks: storytelling, robots, and
augmented reality, there will be a different post for each one of
these projects. Aren't you excited?
Now,
without further ado, I will take the lead and introduce you to the
wonders of working with augmented reality or simply "AR",
putting it short. In order to portray a realistic and accurate
perspective, I have been taking a couple of pictures while I was
following the process, so it is easier to explain everything I did,
although it is actually a simple and quite entertaining task that
students will find themselves happy with.
First
of all, we should begin by introducing our topic: "The Water
Cycle."
The
water cycle explains the different forms of water that can be found
within nature, along with the processes it follows to position itself
in one or another stage, explaining how water evaporates from rivers,
seas, lakes, oceans or streams, rises into the atmosphere, where it
condensates into clouds, only to fall once again as precipitation
either as rain or as snow, Once the cycle is complete, it will repeat
itself an infinite amount of times. These three main processes are
evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
Moving
onto the actual work, we were asked to use augmented reality to
explain the phases of the water cycle in an amusing way to the
students that will be with us in a couple of weeks. Now, it would
only be normal for us to find ourselves completely lost at the
thought of being unable to perform the task since personally, I had
never worked with augmented reality before, but it was a relief to
find out that we would be using a tool that makes it so much easier.Chromeville Science allows
us to choose one of their templates and paint them as we please,
making it extremely
easy to personalize our materials, just as the students will be doing
in no time. Of course, a water cycle template was conveniently placed
among all the other samples.
At
first, all I did was mess around with the app. Tiny pins would pop
up signaling different parts of the template and once I clicked they
would display the name of the element in question. However, it was kind
of a sad-looking, blank template, so I chose to paint it as the
activity for the smaller ones suggests. These are the photos I took
while I was creating my own, little island:
There
we go! A brief definition was also added, as well as the names of the
three main phases, and this was the outcome:
And
last but not least, here is a video of how it looks when using the
augmented reality app:
Thank
you so much for your time! Please, stay tuned.
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