Hyperstudio Resources

Lesson Ideas

Language Arts

Social Studies

Math

Science

Projects, Links & Resources

Lesson Ideas

Language Arts

Autobiographies - Scan pictures that the students bring in of themselves and their families. Have the students make a storyboard telling about their lives. After the storyboard is finished, send the students to the computer to write their autobiographies in a HyperStudio stack. They can draw pictures for any cards that don't have pictures. When the stacks are finished, ask the students to bring blank videotapes that you can record their stacks on to share with their families.
Adaptation of a book - Copy the text from a book (or sections of books) and ask the students to illustrate the text in HyperStudio or on paper and scan the pictures.

Social Studies

Native Americans - Assign a Native American tribe to each student, team, or group. Each student/team/group receives a handout with the following headings: Name of Tribe, What Did They Eat?, Where Did They Live?, What Kind of Houses Did They Have?, and What Did They Hunt? Get books, encyclopedias, and CD-ROMs for students to research their tribes. After the research is completed, have students storyboard exactly what their stacks will look like. At computers, create stacks. When the project is finished, invite principal, parents, counselors, and others to come to a student presentation of their Native American stack.
After studying a state, country, or continent, create a stack that tells the basic facts, history, climate, geography, etc. Include clip art or pictures that the students draw.
After the students interview their families to get information about their family history, have them create a family tree in HyperStudio. These, too, can be taped on video to be sent home.
Insert sections of laserdisc (such as World Geography from STV) into HyperStudio. Give information or ask questions that the students can read/answer individually or as a group.

Math

Make flashcards. This can be done with the problem on one card and the answer on the next card or the answer to the problem could appear on the same card with the problem after a set amount of time using the GhostWriter New Button Action. Flash Cards could be used in all Math areas.
Give a problem and have students write or illustrate the problem and solution.

Science

After researching various inventors, have the students create stacks for each one. After a brief biography, draw an illustration or include a picture of the item that the person invented.
Have the students illustrate various stages of change (volcano eruption, earthquake, plant growth) on paper or within HyperStudio. Paper illustrations can be scanned and inserted into the stack. Use the cel animation feature of HyperStudio to show the changes.
Use path-based animation in HyperStudio to demonstrate the direction of air flow in weather patterns.
Insert sections of laserdisc (such as Animals from STV) into HyperStudio. Give information or ask questions that the students can read/answer individually or as a group.

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Links and Resources for Hyperstudio

Books to Assist in Using Hyperstudio

Hyperstudio for Terrified Teachers published by Teacher Created Materials
Help! I Have Hyperstudio...Now What Do I Do? by Karen Hein McBride and Elizabeth DeBoer Luntz
Hyperstudio Simple Projects (Primary, Intermediate & Challenging Levels) by Teacher Created Materials
Hyperstudio Garden: 101 Things to Grow by Hofmeister & Rudowski
Hyperstudio Project Resource Kit by FTC Publishing Group
Sound Companion for Hyperstudio by FTC Publishing Group

Projects

Color Tesselations - http://forum.swarthmore.edu/sum95/suzanne/colortess.html

Hyperstudio Projects created by classes at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind - http://www.fsdb.k12.fl.us/hs/index.html

wNet School from wNetStation - http://www.wnet.org/wnetschool/software/
Sample projects, ideas to help your organize your multimedia projects from start to finish.

Websites

The Official HyperStudio Web Site - http://www.hyperstudio.com/
This site has it all! Updates, resouces, information, the list goes on and on!

HyperInternet - http://k-12.pisd.edu/hyperstudio/hyperinternet.html
Information on linking Hyperstudio and the Internet.

HyperStudio on the Net - This site privdes links to other HyperStudio sites and the opportunity to participate in discussions about the program.

Hypercard, HyperStudio, and Tessellations - Suzanne Alejandre has developed lessons in how to tessellate using HyperCard and HyperStudio paint tools. This page includes tips in how to tessellate and step-by-step instructions in how to use HyperStudio (and HyperCard) to do this.

Student Projects - http://www.kent.wednet.edu/KSD/DE/st_proj/st_proj.html

Earth Science HyperStudio Stacks - http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/downloads/stack.html
Some GREAT stacks!!

Cramer Software Company - Science Materials made with Hyperstudio
http://www.cramersoftware.com/index.htm

Hyperstudio Ideas, Lessons and Projects - http://mypage.direct.ca/g/grewal/

Hyperstudio Resources - http://members.nbci.com/gandapro/hsindex.htm
This site is full of incredible resources for learning and teaching Hyperstudio.

Sam's HyperStudio Page - Sam Johnston shows how HyperStudio is being used in elementary schools in Calgary and provides links to other HyperStudio sites.

Spanish Language Hyperstudio Tutorial - http://www.corona.bell.k12.ca.us/parents/hyper-s.htm
A beginning Hyperstudio tutorial in Spanish.

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Thanks for visiting my page. Please send me comments or share your ideas for using HyperStudio across the curriculum. Kay Ezzell (ezzell_k@popmail.firn.edu)