Stop Motion Animation

Stop Motion is an app that allows you to take a series of pictures and turn it into a video.  For each picture the students move a small part of the scene. When the pictures are put together in the app, it creates an animation.  Our first animation project was to make words. The children were given a group of magnetic letters.  Their assignment was to animate a series of words.  They had to change the beginning, ending, and middle sound sometime during the animation.  The students worked in groups of two and three.  After their animation was created, we uploaded it to Youtube where I have complied everyone's 3-4 second word animation.

 

These tech savy first graders were ready for their next animation project.  For our second project, we used stop motion animation to illustrate how things move and change.  Our latest reading inquiry unit has been study just that, how things in our world move and change.  In reading group, the students have read books about animal locomotion, geysers, volcanoes, matter, seasons, weather, the moon, and more!   For the project, students chose both their groups and the topic they were most interested in.  They had to research their topic further, create an illustration using construction paper, direct the movement of their piece, then take their series of photographs, and compile the animation.  All in a days work for these smarties!  Check out their creations.