Stop motion animation is a highly motivating cross-curricular activity that our class has used to create several projects. First we write a storyboard using information learned in our unit. Then we create characters out of clay. We design background paintings and sets. We then move our clay characters centimeters at a time capturing each shot using a digital video camera and iStopMotion. We do this over a thousand times to create a two minute video.

Each movie is available in two formats and two different sizes for QuickTime . If you have a PC you most likely have Windows Media Player so click on the Windows Media files. If you have a Mac computer you most likely have a QuickTime Player and you can use the QuickTime files. If you have a Broadband Internet connection you may wish to tackle the large files. They are about 4 MB. If you have a dial-up connection you should use the small files. They are a little over 2 MB and still may take a while to load.

 

 

 

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Our first project is a movie created using stop motion animation called Penguins.

After learning about sharks we made a movie which combined stop motion animation with live "green screened" actors and a background video. This was all composited using Final Cut HD and Motion.

After studying insects in science we created a music video in which we sang about some of the things that we learned about these creatures.