Stop motion - Option 2: Using desktops/laptops
Creating simple animations, storyboarding creative ideas and decomposing a story into small parts of action.
Free trialUnit 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
Google: Creating media: Digital imagery
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Lessons
Lesson 1: What is animation?
Lesson 2: Taking photographs
Lesson 3: My first animation
Lesson 4: Planning my project
Lesson 5: Creating my project
Key skills
- Using greater
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Key knowledge
- To understand
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Key vocabulary
Animate
Animation
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Unit resources
Assessment – Computing Y2: Stop motion (Option 2: Devices with cameras)
Assessment – Computing Y2: Stop motion (Option 2: Devices with cameras) Assessment resources for this unit. Use
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Knowledge organiser
Knowledge organiser Aimed at pupils, a single page
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Key vocabulary
Key vocabulary Subject resources
Computing: Long-term plans
A suggested order for teaching Computing
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Computing: Equipment & resource lists
A list of the resources, hardware
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Curriculum planning
Knowledge and skills progression
Curriculum planning 
Knowledge and skills progression Progression document showing how skills and
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Curriculum planning
Knowledge and skills progression
Outlining the key skills and knowledge
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Key vocabulary
Vocabulary document that shows key vocabulary
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Assessment
Assessment Spreadsheet for Kapow Primary's Computing scheme
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Computing: Statutory and non-statutory mapping documents
Showing which units and lessons meet
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Cross-curricular opportunities
Art and design
Suggested next steps
Creating media: Video trailers (Previously called ‘Digital literacy’)
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