Before the lesson
Learning objective
- To understand what stop motion animation is
National curriculum
Pupils should be taught to:
- design, write and debug programs that accomplish specific goals, including controlling or simulating physical systems; solve problems by decomposing them into smaller parts
- use sequence, selection, and repetition in programs; work with variables and various forms of input and output
Success criteria
Cross-curricular links
Attention grabber
Main event
Differentiation
Pupils needing extra support: Should be given help to make small, simple movements. Encourage them to make mistakes and discuss what they could do to improve.
Pupils working at greater depth: Should break their blob into two pieces and try to animate two blobs at a time. Remind them that they will need to move both blobs between every shot and to keep the movements small.