Lesson Plan SAM Module1 Download

Learning Objectives

1. To understand how animation is created frame-by-frame.

Activities

• Flipbooks or
• Phenakistoscopes

Materials

• Whiteboard
• Whiteboard markers
• Legal pads/writing paper
• Pens and pencils
• Colored pencils
• Markers, thick and thin
• Crayons
• Flipbook samples (see Lesson 2 for printable flipbooks. Print onto card stock, cut, stack, and secure one end so that the pictures can be flipped.)
• Half-size note cards and mini binder clips or small stacks of sticky notes
• Stapler
• Thumbtacks

Preparation

• Assemble SAM FlipBook samples from SAM Handouts folder: print on card stock, cut apart, stack, secure with a binder clip or heavy-duty staples (can also print on copy paper, cut apart, and glue onto half-size note cards).
• Pre-assemble stacks of 25 blank cards for one per student.
• If using, print out phenakistoscope templates on 110 lb card stock. Print at least 1.5 templates for each participant.
• Cut and draw a sample phenakistoscope in advance.

Terminology

Animation: The technique of capturing illustrations or models in a frame-by-frame movement sequence to create the illusion of movement when shown in rapid succession.

Illusion: When your eyes trick you into seeing something that isn’t there.

Claymation: Making a stop-action motion animated movie using clay figures.

Placard: A written sign meant to help explain to the audience what is happening in the story.

Shorts: Very short movies.

Frame: One exposure, or one image, in an animated sequence. In a flipbook, a frame is a single page. In the computer animation program, a frame is a single click of the camera. In animation, movement happens a frame at a time.

Flipbook: A technique of flipping drawings rapidly in a sequence to create the illusion of animation.

Phenakistoscope: an early animation device involving a spinning disk of sequential images that uses the persistence of vision principle to create an illusion of motion. This is an optional activity for advanced or repeats classes and instructions can be found on a separate handout.