Systems Animations
Animation checklist - co-constructed criteria for your animation
Visit 1 - Practicing with SAM (stop motion animation software)
First things first: Working in groups of 4 here's your roles: 1. Set up camera and filming area. Clear the area where you'll be filming your movie. 2. Get Legos for your creation (get a bucket/basket and a mat). 3. Open SAM software on the computer that you've connected your camera to. 4. Get a whiteboard, marker and eraser and record your group number and names. Beginning with the end in mind - Your task: Using the Lego bricks and pieces in your bucket/basket collaboratively create a Spectacular Structure. As you build, be sure to snap a picture each time you add a lego piece. At 11:35 we will do a gallery walk of all of your movies. You have until 11:35 to complete your building and filming. Seek first to understand - then to be understood - With your group discuss what type of a spectacular structure you might build. Come to an agreement on what you're going to try to build. Make sure everyone has had a chance to listen and share before you start building. |
Visit 2 - Looking at samples and co-constructing criteria for Animations
Fifth graders - once you've finished your research on your body systems, you'll be working as a group to create a stop motion animation showing how your system works. We'll be using SAM along with flexible cameras. This is the software you used for your LEGO structures.
For independent fun: Visit the Draw a Stickman page to get some ideas about how animation can work.
Draw a stickman
Looking at samples
As you watch the following movies think about what you see in the movies. How do they tell the story? What materials are being used? How was the stop motion animation created?
What is Stop Motion Animation?
Take a look at the samples below done by students on the iCreate website. (more samples: http://icreatetoeducate.com/student-creations/science/)
1 - Plant Cells | 2 - The Butterfly Cycle | 3 - Brain Freeze | 4 - The Digestive System
Fifth graders - once you've finished your research on your body systems, you'll be working as a group to create a stop motion animation showing how your system works. We'll be using SAM along with flexible cameras. This is the software you used for your LEGO structures.
For independent fun: Visit the Draw a Stickman page to get some ideas about how animation can work.
Draw a stickman
Looking at samples
As you watch the following movies think about what you see in the movies. How do they tell the story? What materials are being used? How was the stop motion animation created?
- Wind Blades 2 (whiteboards, pipe cleaners, blades)
- Chickens Out (print pictures and cut out, construction paper)
- Island of the Blue Dolphins (construction paper)
- A Story in Whiteboard Bits (whiteboard, post-its, cutouts)
What is Stop Motion Animation?
Take a look at the samples below done by students on the iCreate website. (more samples: http://icreatetoeducate.com/student-creations/science/)
1 - Plant Cells | 2 - The Butterfly Cycle | 3 - Brain Freeze | 4 - The Digestive System
The Digestive System from Debi Tisdell on Vimeo.
What happened next? - After exploring SAM and co-constructing criteria for a stop motion animation, we returned to our classrooms to research our group body systems. We used the My Incredible Body App and Power Knowledge Life Science as our primary tools for our research.
In our groups we learned about our system and then we created a storyboard for our stop motion animation. Our task was to create an animation explaining how our system works. |
Then we scheduled time in the computer lab to do our stop motion animations. Before coming to the lab we needed to have all of our props made and we needed to have run through our story with one of the adults helping with our project. In the lab we created our animations using SAM. While 2 members of our group were in the lab doing the animation the other members of the group were collaborating using Google Slides for our group's presentation. As we worked on our animations we used the co-constructed checklist to make sure that we met all the criteria for a quality project.
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