Abstract—New Media Technology is involving to support teaching and learning programs. The developing countries in the world need to adopt ne methodology to make the students understand the classroom lesson in real life situations. Animation is one area that can add value to the lessons and enable the student to learn quickly and easily. Simulation of an experiment using animation will enhance learning abilities among the students. Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries are trying to improve the quality of people using new methods by bring theory and experiment in science teaching using simulation models. This paper is result of an experiment conducted on students to make them learn using simulation animation on science lesson "Digestive System". The paper elaborates the pre and post design of simulation animation of the lesson on digestive system. The paper deals with the steps of operations that the specialists and students have to go though the learning abilities measured to find the results.

Index Terms—Simulation, animation, computer-based instruction, interactive multimedia.

The authors are with the Department of New Media Faculty of Informatics, Mahasarakham University, Kantarawichai District MahaSarakham 44150, THAILAND (e-mail: lek1122@hotmail.com,suwich.t@msu.ac.th)

Cite: Suteewan Kittidharma-Opas and Suwich Tirakoat, "The Efficiency of Simulation Animation on a Science Lesson: A Case study of a Lesson on Digestive System," International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 458-461 , 2012.