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Instant ice-creamA careers activity

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With your science knowledge, create a computer animation to explain how the machine works. We’ll play it on our

website.

The customer picks a flavour. Two minutes later, out pops a scoop of delicious ice-cream.

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Welcome to the marketing team at

Cremissimo. Help us launch our incredible ice-cream vending

machine.

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Use the gallery of graphics, and

be creative!

Put your animation

together using PowerPoint.

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Starting with basic liquid ice cream:

Stage 1: the machine squirts in the chosen flavour and mixes it

together..

Stage 2: It freezes the mixture solid – ready for eating.

The important thing to show is how particles

behave during the two stages of making ice

cream.

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The particles are like ‘actors’. You can make them move around in

two ways.

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You can insert a ‘transition’ between two slides that look different. Click forward and

backward to see!

Think about each PowerPoint

slide as a ‘stage’.

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Or use ‘custom animation’ to add a ‘motion path’.

Click to see!

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