Children Animating Their Worlds: Stop-motion animation

Children Animating Their Worlds: Stop-motion animation

1. Cameras and Ipads: different uses (Technology, Funds of knowledge, Agency)

   • Games
   • Music
   • Videos
     • Watch examples of animations: discuss, reflect, give opinion, hypothesise (Literacy, Social Skills)
   • Internet for research (Technology as tool for information)

2. Create animations

   • Draw characters (Creative Arts, Maths: features, sizes, propostion)
   • Draw storyboards (Literacy: sequence of events)
   • Write scripts (Literacy)
   • Make characters and props with different materials (Creative Arts: clay, recyclables, paper cut-out, play dough)
   • Edit animation: delete/add frames, add special effects, voice, sound, light (Technology,Media Arts)
   • Estimate the number of frames necessary to make an animation - per second, per minute (Maths: duration of time)
   • Proportion of characters/background/props (Maths: scale, size, symmetry)
   • Negotiating story lines, sharing ideas with peers and educators, listening to/giving feedback, problem-solving, turn-taking, appreciating, celebrating learning (Social skills, Literacy)

3. Vocabulary related to animation (Literacy)