This Classroom Suite activity has a new frame animation, a blue butterfly, to use in creating IntelliMation in your activities. The animation is contained in a toolbar button. Instructions on the page explain how to reach into this resource holder document from an activity you’re building, and bring in the blue butterfly to use in animation.

Design Layers shows you how to decide what goes in front of what in your Classroom Suite activities. The tip download is a short Classroom Suite activity that will teach you how to use design layers with a frame animation in about 15 minutes! There is a demonstration, with screen shot instructions, and then you can try it for yourself.

Mountain Bike Race takes the reader to the top of a mountain and down the trails to the bottom on a mountain bike. The reading level is 3rd to 4th grade, but the story would interest older students as well. The reader sees the scenery from a bike rider’s viewpoint, and movies of the bike coming up the lift, the racers starting down, and the end of the race make this a vivid and real experience. Bonus: Collection of photos from the story, plus extra mountain scenes!

Feathers is a science activity explaining how birds and people use feathers. Movies let students see close-up views of birds in flight, a diving bird, and penguins walking about on the ice. Then photos of many different feathers challenge students to guess which bird they belong to. Each feather photo leads to a page with a photo and movie of the bird. Bonus: Collection of the bird and feather photos used and a set of off-computer match cards!