Hosted by OSOS , contributed by Laurianne on 20 June 2018
Encourage students to question the surrounding world and put their imagination at work to produce a story based on astronomy or space related picture.
With this project, students make a documentary or a fiction based on a space related picture. In small groups, they will create a short movie using dedicated software (movie making, sound recording, putting an image into motion with Ken Burns effect).
In the framework of digital technologies, the aim of the project is to create a video form a still image. The image is explored and valued by the story.
Based on a scientific picture, students put their imagination at work and get to question the world.
Movies produced are valued in the framework of a book festival (Festival du Livre Jeunesse Occitanie), they are shown to general public.
Eventually all the schools participating in the project are gathered at a science center (Cité de l’espace). A scientific illustrator, Aurélie Bordenave, does drawing live on air based on the audio tracks of the selected movies. The audio tracks must be descriptive enough to allow the illustrator drawing the scientific image without previously seeing it.
Learning objectives
- To question the world based on a scientific image
- To convey student’s own model of the world through its own opinion and sensitivity
- Analytical mind
- To understand what is an image based fiction/documentary
- To use digital technology to value the story
- Storytelling
Available partnership opportunities
Here are some partnership opportunities you should consider in your development:
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Cité de l’espace |
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Festival du livre Jeunesse Occitanie de St Orens |
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Illustratrice scientifique |
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| Digital industry |
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| Universities or research centres |
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| Teachers |
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RRI Principles
One of the key aspects of OSOS is the inclusion of RRI — Responsible Research and Innovation — principles (more information at RRI-Tools.eu). This is how this Accelerator fits into the RRI model:
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Governance |
Students will be able to understand the surrounding world, develop critical mindset and put their imagination at work under the guidance of the science center (Cité de l'espace). I.e.: Students will question the surrounding word and put their imagination at work to produce a story based on astronomy or space related picture. The picture will be chosen by Cité de l'espace. During the final event, they will get feedback from a scientific illustrator which will make them reflect on their work. |
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Public Engagement |
This project is based on a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach. Students in groups need to understand the scientific picture and tell a story about it based on the details in the image. They get feedback from the science center, other students and a scientific illustrator. I.e.: The scientific illsustrator draws something based on the story she hears. Together with the students, they compare the picture and the drawing. This way students get direct feedback and can reflect on their story. |
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Gender Equality |
The activity is established with a gender-neutral approach, it will benefit both men and women. I.e. : The pictures given to students are selected in a gender-neutral approach. |
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Science Education |
Students will use their scientific knowledge to understand the image and then write their story. They will have a scientific approach to understand the image they choose. They will have to develop an analytic mindset to understand the image and write the story based on it. I.e.: The student work will be presented during a book festival, this way students get to share their work with the general public. They can sensitize the public to science related issue. |
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Ethics |
Students will share responsibility in the project, in compliance with the research integrity and the social values of Science. I.e.: This project will help the student reflect on their work and how they communicate. If they communicate well their work and on science, the image and the drawing form the scientific illustrator will have strong similarities. |
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Open Access |
Many science or space related pictures are available online free of charge. |
Resources needed
- Scientific photos
- Computer with an Internet connexion
- Software
- Audacity for the voice recording
- Phtorécit 3 or ffdiaporama to enhance the image
Organization in charge of this Accelerator
This Accelerator has been developed by Laurianne Palin and Christophe Chaffardon from the Cité de l'espace de Toulouse (France). Here is their contact information:
Laurianne Palin - l.palin@cite-espace.com
Christophe Chaffardon - c.chaffardon@cite-espace.com
Cité de l'espace - Avenue Jean Gonord - Toulouse - FRANCE
Осетити
Addressed challenge : Encourage students to question the surrounding world and put their imagination at work to produce a story based on astronomy or space related picture.
Everyday, we get a lot of information from different sources. Students need to understand them and sort them out to know if they can be trusted or not. In this project, they will question the surrounding world, put their imagination at work, and train their communication skills. They imagine a story based on a scientific picture. A scientific illustrator draws based on the picture she hears. Together, the student and the scientific illustrator compare the picture and the drawing. If they communicate efficiently, the initial picture and the drawing from the scientific illustrator will have strong similarities.
In this section, students have to understand what depicts the scientific picture they chose .
Session 1 - Expected time: 90 minutes
- Students choose one of the three photos offered
- Students do a documentary research about this iconographic document
For example:
Left : In the Cupola : The Nasa engineer Chris Cassidy uses a 400 mm lens on a digital camera to photograph the Earth about 250 miles below the International Space Station (ISS). (Photo credit : NASA)
Right : The astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Sandra Magnus, 2 specialists of mission STS-126, have fun with free floating fruits in the spatial shuttle Endeavour. (Photo credit : NASA)
Needs: Scientific photos / Computers with access to internet
Замислити
In this section, students have to imagine the context of the picture they have to base their story on, and imagine the story.
Session 1 - Expected time: 90 minutes
Students produce with the help of their teacher a documentary or a fiction based on the chosen image. They can work in group (3 or 4 students each group)
Needs: nothing special
Session 2 - Expected time: 90 minutes
Students write a story based on the details of the photo. The duration of this text/story should be between 1 minute and a maximum of one minute and a half.
Student can help by a university student.
Needs: nothing special
Креирај
In this section, students have to record their story and transform the inital picture in a movie using Ken Burn's effect.
Session 1 - Expected time: 90 minutes
- Students develop a digital object: they recorded their voices with Audacity or directly in Photorécit 3 and use the appropriate sounds.
- Students create a digital scipt using Photorécit 3 or ffdiaporama to product a “zooming” and “unzooming” effect on the photo chosen to show a remarkable detail (Ken Burns’s effect). These details will be elements for their story or for the progression of their documentary.
Needs: Computers with access to Audacity and ffdiaporama or Photorécit 3 software
Session 2 - Expected time: 90 minutes
Students and teacher will edit their projects: they combine and adjust the soundtrack and the camera position (they change the timing of the elements of the video sequence to choose an adequate moment to read the story).
Needs: Computers with access to Audacity and ffdiaporama or Photorécit 3 software
Објави
In this section, the students get to share their stories with other students, with a scientific illustrator and with the general public.
Session 1 - Cité de l'espace - Expected time: 1 DAY
- The morning, during 1h30: meeting and exchange with an illustrator specialized in the scientific field. She will realize illustrations of student’s texts without previously seeing the photos. She will draw what the student’s stories inspire her. Thank to a direct projection system, her illustration of the students stories will be compared with the pictures.
- The afternoon : self-guided tour
Needs: nothing special
Session 2 - Festival du livre de Jeunesse Occitanie de St-Orens - Expected time: 1 DAY
The work of the students will be shown to the public during a book festival: videos produced will be show in continuous (10am – 7pm) on the Cité de l’espace and the DAAC stand. They will meet public, teachers and students. Students can also present, if they want, their works to the young audiences in the festival.
Needs: stand in the festival with material / video projector / computer