Silent physics animation tasks for learner narration

Abstract We introduce silent video tasks for physics education by providing a practical definition of silent physics animation tasks. The original idea of working with silent video tasks is grounded in social constructivist theories and involves students adding their narration to a ready-made silent animation video. We provide a collection of silent physics animation videos created with Manim and explain their content. We examine and reflect on the results of a pilot-study where we analysed the word-frequency of student narrations.