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Why Claymation in the classroom?
A ball of clay is a ball of possibilities!
Students have much experience filling in multiple choice bubbles.
Fewer have had the experiences of rolling a ball of clay to create a bubble, a ball, a globe or an atom. What happens when that ball then transforms into a cell, a star, a head of a famous American or an archeological artifact?
Claymation can be a great way to grab student attention for an extended period of time and to engage them collaboratively in a subject you really love or a subject you are searching to make more interesting to them.
Creating a stop motion animation is an exciting way to engage students in collaborative learning, careful planning and on the fly problem solving. The subject of your students' animations can be as diverse as their imaginations or it can be tightly knitted to core subject matter. Regardless of the main theme of your workshop, students will be using many skills and working in teams to arrive at a final animation. They will sift gears moving back an forth between detailed planning and in the moment creative decision making.They will need to write , use their math skills, oral skills and people skills (how do you to react when someone accidentally sits on you carefully crafted Red-bellied newt or gets a big pink thumb in the picture frame? ) Take two!
Smile and enjoy the process of the collaborative journey as much as the end product.
A ball of clay is a ball of possibilities!
Students have much experience filling in multiple choice bubbles.
Fewer have had the experiences of rolling a ball of clay to create a bubble, a ball, a globe or an atom. What happens when that ball then transforms into a cell, a star, a head of a famous American or an archeological artifact?
Claymation can be a great way to grab student attention for an extended period of time and to engage them collaboratively in a subject you really love or a subject you are searching to make more interesting to them.
Creating a stop motion animation is an exciting way to engage students in collaborative learning, careful planning and on the fly problem solving. The subject of your students' animations can be as diverse as their imaginations or it can be tightly knitted to core subject matter. Regardless of the main theme of your workshop, students will be using many skills and working in teams to arrive at a final animation. They will sift gears moving back an forth between detailed planning and in the moment creative decision making.They will need to write , use their math skills, oral skills and people skills (how do you to react when someone accidentally sits on you carefully crafted Red-bellied newt or gets a big pink thumb in the picture frame? ) Take two!
Smile and enjoy the process of the collaborative journey as much as the end product.