Stop motion - Option 2: Using desktops/laptops
Creating simple animations, storyboarding creative ideas and decomposing a story into small parts of action.
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Stop motion – Option 2: Using desktops/laptops
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Create a flip book animation.
- Take clear, in-focus photographs using a digital camera.
- Upload images from the school network.
- Decompose a story into smaller parts to plan a stop motion animation.
- Create stop motion animations with small changes between images.
Suggested prior learning
Lessons
Lesson 1: What is animation?
- To understand what animation is.
Lesson 2: Taking photographs
- To take clear photographs using a digital camera.
Lesson 3: My first animation
- To create a stop motion animation.
Lesson 4: Planning my project
- To plan my stop motion animation.
Lesson 5: Creating my project
- To create a stop motion animation.
Key knowledge
Related content
Resources
Unit resources

Computing
Knowledge organiser: Computing – Y2 Stop motion
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit.

Computing
Vocabulary display – Computing Y2: Stop-motion – Option 2: Using desktops/laptops
A display version of the key vocabulary from the unit 'Stop-motion - Option 2: Using desktops/laptops'.
Cross-curricular opportunities
Art and design
Suggested next steps
Video trailers – Option 1: Using devices other than iPads
There are alternative options available for this unit.