Animations are powerful forms of visual communication and engaging ways for students to demonstrate understanding while building essential digital-age literacy skills.
Use these samples, lessons, and classroom animation ideas to inspire activities in your classroom that engage students in the curriculum.
Students can create animations to summarize events in a story or share knowledge you have learned from informational texts.
Students can personify an object and write a story as part of an online book or animated adventure.
Creating animation can help students analyze and more deeply comprehend ideas and structures, as small as single-celled organisms or as large as a solar system.
Have students create animated shorts to build visual literacy and communication skills no matter the content.
Having students create the instructional materials needed to flip a lesson can deepen their own understanding of a given topic as they endeavor to teach the lesson to their classmates.
Texas educator Amy Clark asked her students to use animation to better understand that verbs are action words. She also asked her students to come up with a "fancy" word, or synonym, for their verb.
Creating animations helps students combine nonlinguistic representations with summarization to better remember information they are learning.
Animated vocabulary cards can help engage students in the process of making sense of new words and remembering their meaning.
Because our students have grown up watching cartoons and animations, creating them is a powerful opportunity to empower them to create and not simply consume technology.
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