Shape, color, movement

Animation can help kids learn, yes, we know. They have to learn a lot of things, what content should we use animation to teach them? What they can learn through animation? Necessary or waste time? How to use animation to function they brain? 

**Shape**

----------Geometry

Simply put, geometry is the study of the size, shape and position of 2 dimensional shapes. 

However, geometry is used daily by almost everyone. Geometry is found everywhere: in art, architecture, engineering, robotics, land surveys, astronomy, sculptures, space, nature, sports, machines, cars and much more.

Young children have an inborn ability to understand shapes. Even babies can recognize the difference between a circle and a square. They can see shapes and feel them. But they need help learning each shape. As children grow, they can start to talk about and compare shapes and understand how they are used.

---------Importance of shapes in early childhood education

Kids notice that different shapes even if they do not yet know that the shapes have any names. It takes longer for young children to learn the specific properties of each shape, such as the number of sids or how the shape looks. Giving kids lots of practice with shapes can help them solidify their understanding of the 2dimensional structures. That knowledge of shapes gives the young people an advantage in many areas of learning.  Children who learn about shapes are building skills that will help them with reading, writing, and math. Learning about shapes also can help them understand other signs and symbols.

---------Some ideas of shapes

Letters, we use them daily, have a closely look, you'll notice they are made of a variety of shapes and lines. O,o, L,l,X,x,S,s. Circles and lines interesting at different angels are common shapes in letters. Young child who is able to distinguish between shapes is better equipped to notice the differences in shapes of letters. This helps not only with reading but also with writing. The lines and shapes might initially look haywire, but they will eventually turn into recognizable letters. Like letters, number come from the combination of different lines. A strong understanding of shapes can help child better recognize the numbers and how they look. Number recognition is an early math skill which need before they can move on to more advanced math skills. The shapes themselves fall under the geometry standards of math.We also can use shapes to learn and understand our daily necessities, food, building, we can't get away from shapes. Learn shapes is necessary in early child development.

----------Shapes and understanding

At this "visualization" level, kids’ focus is on the overall appearance of the shape, with little or no attention to the 'properties' of the shape. A square is a square because it matches with the “square prototype”. So, to the kid’s mind, a square once it has been rotated at a 45-degree angle will not be a square anymore. It may become a diamond, or an unrecognizable shape. For kids in this level, the shapes can be changed by rotation or rearrangement. So, the goal at this level is to explore how shapes are alike and different and to use these ideas to create categories of shapes, like squares, triangles, circles, cylinders, etc. The kids may start by grouping a triangle and a square together (they both have corners). But with more experience, they will start recognizing the differences between the more pointy corners of a triangle and the right angle corners of the square.  

Kids at this level gain most experience by evaluating common shapes and learning interesting features that they see in the shapes. They can later compare two shapes and learn features in the shapes that are alike and that are different. A kid at a better stage of this level should be able to sort multiple shapes based on a feature, and should start noticing some traditional geometric properties.

-----------Animation and shapes transition

As above, we talk about the shapes and the properties of the shapes. To our kids, when a shape has been rotated at a *degree angle will not be a same shape anymore. To help them understand the categories of shapes and to develop kids creative thinking skill about shape rotating, I would like to use animation to explore how shapes are transform.

Square. Squares can occur in different ways. It can be a box, TV, tofu, windows, diamond, and so on. When a square transform from one angle to another degree, we think it become other thing. Kids can learning shape and it's transition from the transforming.

Color

same as my color studies.

Movement
Shapes and it's form with relate applicate.