Adobe Animate is a software program that allows users to create and edit animations, interactive media, and games.
Research shows incorporating tools like Animate improves both conceptual understanding of science topics and student confidence in expressing concepts through coding-based animation projects.
- It can help students develop animation and programming skills by allowing them to create and share interactive animations and games that communicate scientific concepts, data, or phenomena.
- It can enhance students’ creativity and critical thinking by enabling them to explore different animation and programming techniques, styles, and effects in their projects, and to compare and contrast the results of different editing choices.
- Animated data visualizations:
Have students take a dataset and create an engaging animated infographic bringing the numbers to life.
- Interactive simulations:
Ask students to develop easy-to-understand interactive animations allowing users to explore science phenomena at their own pace.
- Digital science stories:
Assign animation projects explaining science narratives from unique perspectives to increase empathy and engagement.
- Use built-in coding snippets and templates to animate efficiently
- Incorporate visually engaging vector and raster graphics
- Build in interactivity with simple event-triggering actions
- Publish animations for web, video, or graphic export
- Take advantage of Animate integration with other Creative Cloud tools like Illustrator
