A project-based challenge where students re-harmonize a simple melody to completely transform its emotional character.
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.
