Curated OER
Refrigerator to Renoir: Ten Great Art Lessons on the Net
Every learner can be an artist with a series of activities designed to access their creativity. With reference links and instructional ideas, this art resource is sure to enrich your class and bring new ideas to even your most reluctant...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Stop! Motion Animation Is a Go
Lesson introducing learners to animation. Students will create original storyboards, characters, and backgrounds that they will use to photograph multiple images. Images will be combined using photo software to create a short (about...
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: Understanding Inflation: A Stop Motion Explainer, Parts 1 and 2
Explore a real-life application of percentage-the math behind rates of inflation-in two animated videos about inflation from KQED. The first video provides an overview of inflation; the second explains the role of inflation in a healthy...
Other
Animate clay.com: Clay and Stop Motion Animation Page
A totally cool site on clay animation. There are tips on how to make your clay objects come to life!
Library of Congress
Loc: The Father of American Animation
American cartoon animation owes its beginnings to British-born filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton, who combined drawings and stop-motion photography to create animated short films.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Animation for Grades 6 12
Students will create an animation to represent one of the many feedback loops that influences climate change. To create their animation, students will use clay, cut paper, whiteboard or other materials commonly found in the classroom....
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Work and Energy: Stopping Distance of a Hot Wheels Car
Students can analyze an animation of a Hot Wheels car and use the principles of work and energy to answer the given questions.
Other
Simple Science: Animals in Motion
The innovative resource explores the biomechanics of bipeds and quadrupeds. Learners study how animals and humans move by starting, slowing, and stopping animations. The activity has an interactive online version and a printable data sheet.
New York Times
New York Times: Comically Dead
The artist Carlos Grangel discusses his character designs for the stop-motion animated film "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride."
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Making a Ted Ed Lesson: Synesthesia and Playing Cards
How can a pack of playing cards accurately explain the complicated and nuanced neurological condition, synesthesia? TED-Ed animators explain the process of creating an original animation from planning to fruition, including the special...