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4-H Photography Intermediate Activity Pages
Photography is the focus of this 4-H photography worksheet. Learners examine the history of the camera, complete a photography service project, discover careers in photography, and determine their photography skill level. They complete a...
Columbus City Schools
It’s All Relative
Are the people on the other side of the world standing upside down? Pupils discuss the relationship between movement and position words. The unit explores the concept of reference points through animation, modeling, photography, and...
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Still Movement
Students explore constant motion. Using photography equipment and a dark room, students develop photographs that depict motion. Students demonstrate the proper use of photograph equipment.
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Feet of Song
Young scholars establish a basic definition of stop frame animation and the processes involved in creating a film. Through guided practice and film reviews, they create their own stop motion animation in response to a film they have seen.
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Animation Pre-Production
Does your class love reading cartoons? Use their talents and interests to examine the process of writing a story they wish to tell through a cartoon. They develop the beginning, middle, and end of a story based on their original...
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Animation
Studnets comprehend the elements of value, perspective and color schemes. They comprehend the principles of contrast, emphasis and unity, and the expressive qualities of thematic development and sequence. Students are asked about their...
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Visual Composition
Students study how elements of visual composition and group storyboards for a one-minute videotaped commercial.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Animation for Grades 6 12
Young scholars 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...
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.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Life's Little Questions: Frozen Droplets
Investigate the use of stroboscopic disks to study actions that are too fast for the naked eye, and construct a stroboscopic viewer to demonstrate how a gated view of dripping water may produce the illusion of "frozen" motion.