5 th and 6 th grade – 10 and 11 years

• Stimulate students to draw and use rotine situations to create images
• Turn ideas into words and images
• Involve students in a multidisciplinary way and use new techniques in a creative way
• Understand how to make an bidimensional image move
• Develop a personal and richer visual language
• Develop group work
• Approach different animation techniques

Phase 1 – telling short stories, rotine situations and drawing (November to December)

Phase 2 – visiting Centro Lúdico de Animação no Coliseu. Trying different animation techniques (January to February)

Phase 3 – collecting works and using ICT to post them. Creating a new sequence of images with a story (March to June)

• Drawing skills
• Research and material selection abilities
• Creativity
• Participation
• Team work
• Problem solving ability

Phase 1

• teacher explains the project o the students by showing them, in Powerpoint, some examples of animation techniques (from Keith Haring)
• students make simple drawings

Phase 2

• students will visit Centro Lúdico de Animação no Coliseu
• students make simple sequences (example: a plane flying, a man walking…)
• students create some useful instruments to animate the sequences: flip book, thaumatropes, zoetropes and phenakistascopes

Phase 3

• works will be digitalized in computer and compiled
• the work will be post on-line www. colegioescravas.org
• students create new sequences, this time with a story

Animation books, Powerpoint, drawings, internet, flip book, thaumatropes, zoetropes and phenakistascopes ...

To create short animated images with the students , using the computer to make them move.

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