Assignment Week #8 Pt.3

I want to teach stop motion animation for my classroom teaching. First of all, almost all kids love animation, and they watch it daily, so it'd be a subject that easily provoke their interest. Secondly, it involves with several mediums at once to create the final outcome, including photography and videography, which would help kids to expand their knowledge in the digital world. Thirdly, making a stop motion animation would require lots of observation for students, in order to make things work in their vision, and it is an essential for art learning as well as general learning.

Learning Objective: Students will observe and understand different movements in our life and how it affects every single thing we do. They will learn the basics of making a stop motion animation by using the iPhone app I Can Animate Lite. Student will explore different art materials used in a stop motion animation and create a short story includes two of their favorite things, they could be people, animals, objects, colors or anything they love.

Target group: grades 5 to 8

Materials: play doe, pastel, marker, iPhone with I Can Animate Lite installed, tripods.

Guiding Questions:
What's movement? What moves? What is moving right now?
Do you like animation?
How do things move in animation? What's your favorite animation character?
How can we make moving images? What can we use to make moving images?
What do you want to move in your animation? How are you going to do it?

Classroom Activity:
-Watch a short stop motion animation on Youtube
-Classroom demonstration
-Brainstorm stories individually
-Brainstorm stories in a group
-Students will be pair in groups of 2
-Idea proposal
-Build sets and props
-Finalize and export
-Share a success