Diamond Detectives
Topic: Tracking the Kohinoor diamond
Project Start and End date: 22nd Jul 2013 to 16th
Sept 2013Type of project: Social Science
Class: VII
Teacher: Nalini Ujre
Team members: Tejas suresh, Adithya R Pai, Lakshminarayan, Raghunandan D. R., Abhinav Mohanty
Project Overview :
•Our
Topic is Kohinoor Diamond of India
•
Our animation shows how the diamond
passed from one king to another. And how a historian writes a written
account by collecting information from various people.
•
We have chosen this topic because Kohinoor Diamond is an important jewel of India.
•In
this Project we have shown how the diamond was found , how it went from one
king to another and finally how did it
go to England.
•
We obtained a lot of information on the Kohinoor while doing our research and
animation.
•This
project is targeted student of Classes 6-8
WHY ALICE?
•ALICE provides all the props we required to make our project.
• All the procedures ,facilities and and the settings were availible.
•It is a 3D animation software which we required for our project.
•It is easy to animate the program.
Our
team’s experience working on Alice3.1
Adithya:
I had an amazing experience working with ALICE. At first I had totally
got confused on what I had to do but all went well. ThIs helped me to spend my
free time in a nice way. I also learned making quizzes, variables, etc. It also
gave me more information about my topic Kohinoor Diamond. I thank this school
for thinking I am capable of doing these things. I specially thank my teachers for giving me this opportunity.
Tejas: It was really fun! We did a project in
history based on the Kohinoor diamond; we just managed to complete it in time!
And in the end, it was a grand success!! I enjoyed this project very much and this
project taught about how to work as a team and also taught us how to work nder
pressure.
Abhinav: My experience through this ALICE CBSE Project has been
exhilarating. Our group from class 7 D (Tejas Suresh, Adithya R Pai, P.Lakshmi
Narayan and Raghunandan D.R) chose the topic Kohinoor diamond. This taught us a
lot about teamwork and being a team. Each of us made a different scene and in
the end we merged all together. My job was to create a scene telling the
audience about the history of the Kohinoor diamond from the mid 16th
century to present. My characters were a young historian and an old historian.
I recorded my voice in two different ways, playing the voice of these two
characters. I learnt many new things, while working with ALICE.I tried out new
procedure, got everything in place and ended up creating a huge 2.4 MB file
(with sound recording). We ended up editing it. I faced many problems such as
errors, bugs, etc. Through the last 2 months of utter enjoyment I had lots of
fun creating my project and look forward to doing it again 1 year later in the
8th standard.
Lakshminarayan: This is my experience in the ALICE project. Our topic was about ‘the
Kohinoor diamond of India’. I felt it very interesting to make a project based
on the diamond. My part in the animation was about the knowledge which the
Historian 3 knew. While doing the research on my part, I learnt many new things
based on the diamond. It took me nearly 4 days to find the information and
start my project. In the start I faced problems in doing the animation because
I was not thorough with my information.
After some time I got a hang of it. I started working faster. My friends
were also doing well. It took me nearly 3 weeks to complete my project. Thanks
to my subject teachers who let us do our project. I also stayed back in school
for some days to complete my project. We also had to prepare our Power Point
Presentation .I took the in charge to do it .So I asked my friends how to go
about it. Quickly I started my PPT and started working on it. In about 7 days I
completed my PPT. I showed it to my friends and they liked it. Once it was completely
done I showed it to our teacher. He liked it very much. This was
my wonderful experience in doing this project.
Raghunandan: Our project was about the Kohinoor
Diamond. It was how the Kohinoor Diamond went from one king to another. I
was doing the part of the Historian 4 who tells about how the Diamond went from
Babur to Ala-ud-din Khilji. I was so exited in the starting because I did not
know much about Alice and did not have the information about my topic. So my
friend Tejas Suresh helped me in doing this project and at last I finished my
project and I learnt so much about the Kohinoor Diamond and I enjoyed a
lot doing Alice.
