Students reverse the reading process by writing their own 4-measure melodies using correct notation conventions. This reinforces their understanding of stem direction, measure spacing, and rhythmic grouping.
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 lesson launcher for a multi-day independent or group Creative Passion Project, providing the framework for students to research and build their own projects.
An exploration of nineteenth-century Portsmouth shipyards through historical sea shanteys, teaching upper elementary students about rhythm, labor history, and call-and-response song structures.