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Topic

Stop Motion Animation

Grades

3rd, 4th, 5th

Subject

Visual and Performing Arts

Duration

150 minutes

Regional Focus

North America, United States, USA - Northeast, New Jersey

Format

Google Docs, Google Slides

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Project Guide (Animate for the Animals #4)

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Mar 26, 2024
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Synopsis
This lesson will guide students through the process of creating and reviewing their stop motion animation video. 

Step 1 - Inquire: Students watch a video on art and activism.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students spend time creating their video in their groups.

Step 3 - Inspire: Students reflect on each other's videos, writing about the techniques used, the feelings the creators achieved, and the success for awareness of the climate change issue.
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Teaching Tips

Positives

  • Students learn how their projects can create change in their local community.
  • Students have the opportunity to share their work with their community.

Additional Prerequisites

  • This is lesson 4 of 4 in our 3rd-5th grade Animate for the Animals unit.
  • Teacher will need to decide how students will create their stop motion videos and organize the required equipment.
  • Teacher may need to learn one or more apps if students decide to use different technology.

Differentiation

  • Instead of using the Analyzing Animations Worksheet, students could interview each other to get feedback.
  • Students could plan and organize ways to share their videos. This could include a movie night or messaging local, state, and federal representatives.
Scientist Notes

In this lesson, students will create an animation where they will convey a message of their choice about climate and the environment. The video about the climate activist includes information about how climate is specifically impacting Milwaukee, although the affects she mentioned in the video are applicable other places. This resource is recommended for teaching.

Standards

This resource addresses the listed standards. To fully meet standards, search for more related resources.

Primary Standards

  • Visual & Performing Arts
    • Media Arts: Standard 1 - Generating and conceptualizing ideas.
      • 1.2.5.Cr1a: Generate ideas for media artwork, using a variety of tools, methods and/or materials.
      • 1.2.5.Cr1d: Collaboratively form ideas, plans, and models to prepare for media artwork.
    • Media Arts: Standard 2 - Organizing and developing ideas.
      • 1.2.5.Cr2c: Brainstorm goals and plans for a media art audience.
    • Media Arts: Standard 3 - Refining and completing products.
      • 1.2.5.Cr3c: Explore how elements and components can be altered for clear communication and intentional effects, point of view, perspective, and refine media artworks to improve clarity and purpose.
    • Media Arts: Standard 4 - Selecting, analyzing, and interpreting work.
      • 1.2.5.Pr4a: Practice combining various academic arts, media forms, and content into unified media artworks such as animation, music, and dance.
    • Media Arts: Standard 7 - Perceiving and analyzing products.
      • 1.2.5.Re7b: Identify, describe, explain and differentiate how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks affect and manage audience experience when addressing global issues including climate change.

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