This past week while attending the Lilly Extending Teacher Creativity Workshop, which is available to grant winners each summer, I learned how to do Stop Motion Animation. It is a great time to learn new things and get ready for the school year. I've been interested in it for awhile, but never have taken the time to learn to do it.
Now what is Stop Motion Animation you ask, basically what you do is create a video in which you take individual photographs with small movement changes from one to the next and then put them in a program that when the time is adjusted it looks like the thing is actually moving. Here are two videos that I worked on. There are 65-100 slides in each of the videos.
Hope you enjoy and students, in 4th or 5th grade, should be on the look out for a Stop Motion Animation Club being offered later this year.