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Stop Motion Animation

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Stop motion animation is a popular form of art. The boy in this video demonstrates how to create a simple stop motion video using a camera and clay.
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Stop Motion Animation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners list steps in making Stop-Motion animation. In this stop motion animation lesson plan, students will use video equipment to come up with props, characters, backdrops, and storyboards to create a video. They then present the...
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PBS

The Lowdown — Understanding Inflation: A Stop Motion Explainer (Parts 1 and 2)

For Teachers 6th Standards
Things are so expensive these days. A two-part video explains the concept of inflation and its ties to the federal nominal interest rate. Pupils then use data on the historical prices of items to calculate the inflation rates for several...
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Aiken County Public Schools

Claymation in the Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students design an appropriate and usable storyboard and then create a claymation video. They take digital photographs frame by frame, then assemble the stop-motion movie using video software.
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TED-Ed

Bringing a Pop-up Book to Life

For Students 3rd - 9th Standards
Breath life into the pages of a text with this instructional video on creating pop-up books. From choosing a topic, through the planning and creation phases, this video examines how to develop engaging visual...
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Academy of American Poets

Teach This Poem: "Putting in the Seed" by Robert Frost

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young botanists dig into a instructional activity that has them planting lima bean seeds and observing their growth. They compare their experience to that of the speaker in Robert Frost's poem, "Putting in the Seed."
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Animation: ALICE Software

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners familiarize themselves with the ALICE software program. In this computer animation lesson, students are guided through a tutorial on how to use the ALICE software for animation.
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Feet of Song

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students establish a basic definition of stop frame animation and the processes involved in creating a film. Through guided practice and film reviews, they create their own stop motion animation in response to a film they have seen.
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Animation Pre-Production

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Does your class love reading cartoons? Use their talents and interests to examine the process of writing a story they wish to tell through a cartoon. They develop the beginning, middle, and end of a story based on their original...
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Friction in Our Lives

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore force and friction. In this force and friction lesson, students discover everyday examples of how  friction helps and hinders things we do. Students create a ramp to test the speed of their car. Students use...
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May the Force Be With You

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students work in groups, they investigate how different forces act upon objects and how this information can be used in their day-to-day lives. They wrap the rubber band around the book. Students place the bo.ok and ruler on top of a...
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Creating an Animated Film

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers develop an understanding of the animation process by working collaboratively to create an animated film. This instructional activity suggests using digital cameras, iMovie, Photoshop, and GarageBand.
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I'm Tellin'!: Kids Bringing Folktales Alive

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students participate in a reading instructional activity that works on social and academic skills. They increase reading comprehension with direct instruction with the group reading of a folktale. Then students research their own stories...
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Hollow Form - Monsters - Beasties That Never Were

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils investigate Medieval art Gargoyles/Beasties and creatures used for animation films, design an original monster, and create a hollow clay form using hand building techniques.
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Animation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Studnets comprehend the elements of value, perspective and color schemes. They comprehend the principles of contrast, emphasis and unity, and the expressive qualities of thematic development and sequence. High schoolers are asked about...
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Identifying Forces

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils identify, describe and indicate direction and relative magnitude of forces.  In this motion lesson students work in groups to identify the force that is described to them. 
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Animaters and Lego Mania!

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Young scholars use various technology elements to storyboard and create an animal animation story based on a nonfiction story they've read. In this animation story instructional activity, students work in groups and read nonfiction...
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Types of Forces

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study scientific names and descriptions of forces.  In this motion lesson plan students organize information into a graphic organizer then teach it to other students. 
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Exploring Film Genres for Telling Hero Stories: Animated Shorts

For Teachers 5th - Higher Ed
Students will create short movies. The integration of technology into the curriculum is important for learners to apply in various ways. This lesson is an example of that kind of integration.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Stop Motion

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
In this video, a teacher explains how she did a stop motion project with her class and the steps involved. [7:12]
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Stop! Motion Animation Is a Go

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson introducing students to animation. Students will create original storyboards, characters, and backgrounds that they will use to photograph multiple images. Images will be combined using photo software to create a short (about...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: John Quincy Adams: 60 Second Presidents

For Students 9th - 10th
Short, stop motion animated video [1:20] and accompanying background essay provides a look at the life of John Quincy Adams and the controversy surrounding his presidency. Includes student handout and corresponding National Education...
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Animation for Grades 6 12

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will create an animation to represent one of the many feedback loops that influences climate change. To create their animation, students will use clay, cut paper, whiteboard or other materials commonly found in the classroom....
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Animation: Whale Transformation Mask

For Students 2nd - 8th
These stop-motion films made by our 7-12-year-old animators at the second annual #MetKids Animation Lab, explore the theme 'The Met, Inside Out.'

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