Animated Step-by-Steps® are animated PowerPoints designed to address literacy, language, AAC and a host of academic goals. Each page includes a series of animations. Read the text up to the star … click … and see an animation of what you just read.

There are three versions of this resource: Regular, PCS, SymbolStix.

This is the Regular Version (no communication symbol support).

Please note Animated Step-by-Steps® are not compatible with Keynote or Google Slides as the specific animations are not supported. PowerPoint is required.

Three carnations are placed in four cups of colored water to study how the stem of a plant functions. The stem of first and second carnation are placed in blue and yellow water respectively. The stem of the third carnation is split along its length with each split-stem being inserted in a different color … one in red water, the other in green water. There are opportunities for students to predict what they think will happen to the three flowers and, where appropriate, to discuss evaporation, transpiration, the cohesive nature of water and the concept of a vacuum. Charts are available to document predictions and document which color works the fastest.

Some teachers like to extend this resource further by extending the experiment to include drinks of various colors, e.g., cranberry juice, grape juice, gatorade, orange juice.

This resource can be display on the ‘big screen’ (interactive whiteboard, large screen TV using Apple TV) or the ‘little screen’ (computer monitor, iPad/Android tablet or iPhone using the FREE Microsoft PowerPoint app, specific to each).

For further information on the creative use of Animated Step-by-Steps® please visit my blog. http://animatedstepbysteps.blogspot.com