Classroom Integration Ideas for Frames

With Frames students can create animated stories using illustrations they have created with the drawing tools, pictures they have taken with a digital camera, or stop-motion pictures they have captured from a DV or USB camera. Explore samples, lessons, NETS Standards, and articles to learn how you can integrate Frames into your classroom curriculum. Click the image below to watch the animated movie.
Standards
Use the fields below to view content standards correlations for Frames specific to your state, subject, and grade. Since you can meet each standard in a variety of ways, next to each standard you will see columns for Frames Lessons and Tasks. For more information on how to read these standards documents, click here.
Samples
Lessons
Use the pull-downs below to access PDF versions of lessons from Creative Educator. You can also view more lessons online at Recipes4Success.com.
 
 
 
Articles and Integration Ideas
These articles provide ideas and strategies for integrating Frames into the classroom.
pdf icon Clay Animation: SpecTECHular Curriculum Projects
An article on implementing clay animation from the VSTE Journal.
pdf icon Clay Animation and Multiple Intelligences
Find out how you can use clay animation can to engage all of the different intelligences.
pdf icon Clay Animation Supplies List
A list of suggested materials for making clay animations.
pdf icon Digital Storytelling by Bernajean Porter
>In the Classroom
>Across the Curriculum
pdf icon Advanced Thinking in Digital Storytelling
Finding content's deeper meaning by Jon Orech
pdf icon Creating Digital Stories with Frames
Techniques for using Frames for digital storytelling.
pdf icon Animation Rubric
Ideas for assessing the final product AND the process.
pdf icon Project Proposal
Students can use this sheet to help develop a project proposal before they begin working.
pdf icon Storyboard Template
Give students this template to help them create a visual plan of their animated movie
pdf icon Illustrating Animation
With Frames integrated drawing tools, it is easy for student to illustrate their own animations!
pdf icon Animation in Secondary Math and Science
Student-created animation can increase understanding and engage students in the secondary science and mathematics classroom.
pdf icon Project Ideas
Focusing on secondary: Language Arts, Math, Science, or Social Studies (US, Canada).
 
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