Learning objective

  • To understand what animation is.

Success criteria

  • I can recognise an animation.
  • I can identify the

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National curriculum

Computing

Pupils should be taught to:

  • Use

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Cross-curricular links

Art and design

Pupils should be

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Before starting this unit, you might want to check that children can recall: The importance of steadiness, angle, and lighting when taking photographs. Photographs can be edited, cropped, and filtered to enhance their appearance. Searching for images online should be done safely and responsibly.

Learning objective

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Should make small, simple movements; could have a pre-made example completed in front of them.

Pupils working at greater depth

Should increase the complexity of their images; could change the ball into a balloon which a pin could pop. 

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: understanding that an animation is a

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Vocabulary definitions

  • animation

    A way of making a movie by putting together many still images or drawings to show movement.

  • flip book

    A book with a series of pictures that change slightly from one page to the next so when the pages are turned quickly, the pictures look like they are moving.

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In this unit

Assessment - Computing Y2: Stop motion (Option 2)

Lesson 1: What is animation?

Lesson 2: Taking photographs

Lesson 3: My first animation

Lesson 4: Planning my project

Lesson 5: Creating my project

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Sarah has 13 years of experience teaching in a primary school and leading computing.   She now works as a Subject Matter Expert for the NCCE across the East Midlands. In this role, she supports primary schools with bespoke training to develop and…
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Maintained by: Kapow Primary team

Last update: 1st May, 2024

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