Growing Mushrooms

Guidelines and Assessment Rubric

As part of an instructional piece on mushrooms you are going to create an animation showing their growth rate (sort of a time-lapse photography thing).

You'll need the following elements in your flash project:

If you are already well versed in Flash: Make this a little more realistic by having the mushroom grow over a period of days (showing skyline color changes with the moon and sun moving across rapidly). You might want to put these in a movie clip so that you loop the changes on your main timeline. You could also have the mushroom be a movie clip and then show several instances (a whole field) of growing mushrooms.

Assessment Rubric

Your assignment will be assessed using the following rubric:

Criteria Points
Do you use a consistent naming convention for layers? (with all layers having a meaningful name e.g. "layer 1" is not an option) 3 points
Do you have a well organized timeline (related layers are near each other, elements are where they are promised e.g. the moon is on the layer named "moon")? 3 points
Are all of the required elements (see above) present and working correctly? 4 points
Total 10 points