Students explore memorization techniques and learn to create 'motivated' blocking—movement that stems directly from character objectives.
Unit 2 of the 7th Grade Animation & Digital Production curriculum, focusing on podcasting, audio editing, legal/ethical rules, and multi-track mixing.
A lesson introducing students to mobile and browser-based video editing. Students will learn core editing concepts like standard cuts, jump cuts, and J/K cuts, and complete a hands-on 30-second mini-documentary project.
A printable 3-page student-facing project guide and storyboard workbook for planning, drafting, and checking the 30-second "Simple Object" mini-documentary project.
A comprehensive lesson that breaks down the structural, rhythmic, and poetic elements of hip-hop and rap lyrics. Students learn complex rhyming, flow cadence, figurative imagery, and wordplay, then plan and write a complete 16-bar verse using highly visual scaffolding.
A cinematic dark-themed 8-slide presentation introducing mobile and browser-based video editing concepts, core cut techniques, timeline mechanics, and the mini-documentary project brief.
Unit 1: Stop-Motion Animation & Foundational Research. Students explore persistence of vision, digital research credibility, storyboarding, animation physics, and production.
A comprehensive self-evaluation and growth-tracking lesson for art students. Students reflect on their artistic process, compare initial drafts to final works, and evaluate their studio habits and citizenship.
A 10-page expanded student workbook featuring visual graphic organizers, fill-in-the-blank rhythm charts, slant-rhyme matching activities, punchline generators, and a step-by-step drafting layout for a 16-bar rap verse.
Production plan and storyboard guide for the 'AI Superstar' promotional video. This lesson contains the visual storyboard detailing framing, presenter actions, and specific 3D cartoon image prompts to help the presenter record and edit the promotional video.
A 2-page student self-evaluation packet containing structured short-answer response blocks, progress scales, and active reflection on technical skills, creative evolution, studio persistence, and growth in studio citizenship.
A collaborative art and reflection project where students design individual symbolic quilt squares representing their growth and memories, combining them into a grand classroom legacy mural.
