Lesson 2: What is stop motion?

Explore what is meant by the term 'stop motion animation' and create a space-themed animation using stop motion piece of software

Learning objective

  • To understand what stop motion animation is

National curriculum

Pupils should be taught to:

  • Use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content
  • Recognise common uses of information technology beyond school
  • Use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private 

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Help them with using onion skinning to make small changes. Reduce the number of frames in the animation. Encourage them to make mistakes and discuss what they could do to improve.

 

Pupils working at greater depth: Look at adding additional objects into their animation.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progression and understanding

Vocabulary

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Sarah Vaughan,  
Computing specialist
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…
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