Third Grade Stop Motion Animations

This year I decided to let my students choose the idea for their movies.  In the past I have chosen the theme for them thinking I was helping them but they were very capable of coming up with their own ideas, creating their scenes and characters and filming their movie.  I made a checklist to help keep them organized.  Stop motion animation is always a favorite lesson but I think choosing their own ideas made it even more of a hit.  I was impressed with their ideas and realized how limiting it was when I made all the decisions.  I have such a creative group of students.  Check out their class movies.

 

Underwater Collages

Third grade students used their sea creatures and ocean backgrounds from their stop motion animations to create these beautiful collages.  We talked about different ways to incorporate texture (visual and tactile), overlapping and variety of large, small and medium sized shapes.  

Here are the 4 finished movies created by the third grade classes.  I took all of the short clips made by each student and combined them all into one using imovie.  If you want to know more about how we made these movies see my earlier post on Stop Motion Animation

Mrs. Normandin and Mrs. Gregoire


Ms. Allison and Mrs Percy