![]() Our processĪs you can imagine, filming a movie in a classroom can be a test of classroom management and our ability to plan. There were more students in that class than animals in the story, so we used some artistic license to add animals and lines to the story. For the movie, we would re-enact the plot of the story by having each child create an animal and have the animals enter the mitten. The individual animals were colored and decorated by the students. Stop motion animation would provide an opportunity to easily create a movie as a class. We discussed the opportunity to create a movie as a culminating activity for the lesson in which students would share information about an animal of their choice.Īs we continued to plan, decided that it would be much easier to tie the movie back to the story (The Mitten) that we read at the beginning of the unit. ![]() They would also study animals and their habitats after reading the text. ![]() In discussions with the classroom teacher, she indicated that the students would soon start reading and discussing The Mitten by Jan Brett in their next unit of study. In this post I’ll share the steps and tools used, as well as the final video created by the students. While Jax was in Kindergarten, I wanted to work with his class to make a stop motion movie that would tie in to a class reading and theme. When these photographs are stitched together in a quicker sequence, it appears that the object is moving. Stop motion movies are created by having an object move in small increments between individual photographs. Stop motion movies are an animation technique in which you physically manipulate an object to make it appear that it is moving on its own. ![]() In the past, I’ve written about times that I’ve used LEDs with pre-school makers, and previous stop motion movies I created with my son (Jax) while he was in pre-school. We think about the content first, and identify easy ways to embed technology use into instruction. In this work I meet with the classroom teacher to better understand the content and objectives for the upcoming weeks. I frequently work with educators and students in early childhood education classrooms to identify meaningful ways to integrate technology into instruction. ![]()
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