Students dive into the color wheel, learning about primary, secondary, and tertiary colors as well as hue, saturation, and brightness. They practice creating standard color harmonies such as monochromatic, analogous, and complementary schemes.
Unit 1, Lesson 9: The Frame Festival. A celebration block where students showcase their completed historical stop-motion animations, conduct peer critique reviews, and evaluate final projects using the comprehensive unit rubric.
Unit 1, Lesson 6: The Animation Studio - Day 6. Teams establish collaborative group norms and class safety norms, delegate professional roles, and capture the first 30 frames.
Unit 1, Lessons 6-8: Multi-day animation studio production block. Teams establish student roles, execute industry production cues, and shoot their 10-fact historical stop-motion animations on iPads.
Unit 1, Lesson 5: The Physics of Animation. Combining Squash and Stretch, the 1-Stud Rule, set construction stability, lighting consistency, and storyboard revision.
Unit 1, Lesson 4: Introducing the anatomy of a storyboard, exploring visual action, camera shot directions, and drafting an 8-frame visual storyboard plan for the stop-motion animation.
Unit 1, Lesson 3: Synthesizing historical research into 10 punchy factual sentences for the stop-motion script, while conducting an internet safety scavenger hunt on Phishing, Digital Footprint, and Privacy.
Unit 1, Lesson 2: Introducing the S.E.E.K. digital search strategy to help students research, verify, and document credible facts about a historical figure for their future stop-motion script.
Unit 1, Lesson 1: Persistence of Vision lesson outline exploring frames per second (FPS), professional exemplars, and flipbook creation.
A comprehensive project-based lesson for designing cinematic movie or game posters in Adobe Photoshop. Covers image blending, atmospheric overlays, and textured typography tailored for Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced/AP levels.
A comprehensive lesson launcher for a multi-day independent or group Creative Passion Project, providing the framework for students to research and build their own projects.