With Frames students can create stop-motion animated stories using pictures of clay characters they make, stop-motion pictures from a DV or USB camera, pictures they have taken with a digital camera, or pictures they have drawn or painted in Twist, Pixie, or ImageBlender. Explore the resources below to learn more about Frames and explore sample student projects.
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Digital Storytelling
Digital storytelling is an effective way to engage students in their learning. Creating digital stories with Frames, develops students’ ability to interpret events beyond their immediate experience and builds planning, organizational, and time management skills.
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Clay Animation
Nothing engages students more than creating clay animation. With Frames as the foundation in the Clay Animation Kit, this motivating process transforms your classroom into an active learning environment. Your students will love working on cross-curricular group projects that incorporate writing and technology skills.
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Lessons
As you build expertise and confidence with technology, you and your students can move to more open-ended and creative projects. To explore sample lessons using Frames, click here.
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Sample Student Projects
View the samples below to get a few ideas that will help you integrate Frames into your classroom curriculum. Click the image to watch the animated movie.
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Students analyze a poem by breaking it into scenes and supporting the text with appropriate images and sounds. They will use Frames to create their video poem.
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Have students research a historical figure, write a biography, and transform their written biography into a video biography of this person's life.
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Working with measurement, grids, and 2-dimensional representations of objects, have students design their dream bedroom and create a video to present their dream.
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Students create short informational videos to explain geometry terms and definitions they encounter in class.
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After students have studied various science concepts, have them apply what they have learned by writing a creating story that illustrates the concept they have learned.
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Students create public service announcements regarding a health issue.
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After students have learned about a culture, ask them to create a news broadcast centering around a specific idea, such as how did geography affect daily life.
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Students create a digital story comparing two ancient cultures.
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