Animation Ideas

Let your imagination be your guide, but here are a few things I have thought of that students can animate: 

  • Language Arts:               
    Create a scene from a story or novel.
    Write a story that can be animated.
  • Math:
    Animate the solution to a math problem
  • Science:
    Exploding volcanoe
    Stages of plant growth
    Tectonic Plates / Pangea
  • Social Studies: 
    The Seasons / Earths Axis
    Re-create a scene from History
  • Arts  Education:
    Creating Models to Animate
    Animate a scene. Use various styles of background music to see how Mood can be altered.
  • Physical Education
    Animate a specific “play” from a sport (ie: how to execute a full court press)
  • Health
    Hmmm….

Materials

  • Something to Animate. ( Plastecine, toys, people, drawings, any object large or  small) 
  •  A background!
  • Digital camera and a way to get the pictures into the computer. (each camera may be different) 
  • Tripod ( Not optional)
  • Computer 
  • Video editing Software (We will be using Microsoft Movie Maker that comes free with Windows)