 But calling all aspiring film directors, Monaga Public School students, prove it's possible to learn with filmmaking and they're calling the shots. For this week's Golden Apple, Hady Clatter shows us how students use clay animation to learn about science. Lights, camera, action. Students at Monaga Public Schools are taking a seat in the director's chair by creating clay animation videos. This project helps students learn different ways animals obtain energy in different ways animals move. We're doing this project instead so that they can show their understanding through a project instead of just filling out a test. This is one of the bigger projects of the year and students worked on it for a week. Each group is basically teaching about a different body system. So we wanna make sure it's fun but that they're also showing what they understand. They talked about the nervous system, the skeletal and the muscular system, and then for obtaining energy, they're covering the circulatory system, respiratory system, and then also the digestive system. Students were assigned tasks and responsibilities included bringing in pictures to create the scenes. We're kind of rotating, so we can take pictures or move the guy or else we're making props for the clay machine. The teams then chose what body systems they wanted to work on. So we're just kind of like making a scene about science so we have the nervous system. So we have to explain in our story how the nervous system works. Students create the animation by taking photos with an iPad. Then they move the pieces little by little to form a scene. It wasn't always easy. Trying to make the scene's work was quite challenging but students figured it out. We usually use clay and we stick it on the clay and it stands it up for us. My favorite part is probably just creating and modeling the whole scenes and watching all come together and seeing how cool it is young. Like, wouldn't you take a bunch of pictures and see how all the animals moving and stuff? For the final scene, students will present their stop motion videos during a film festival. For this week's Golden Apple in Monago, Haiti, Clutter, Lakeland News. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.