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Step One: Plan Ahead! Decide on your project, explore the equipment available at your school, gather your supplies, and do a test project of your own to learn the "pitfalls" of the experience. The following instructions will guide you through the process.
Project Based Learning Plans: In order to use this with your students you will want to create a project based learning guide. Here is a sample of a project based learning guide that will work with reading aged students.
Decide on a Project: Think carefully of how you will include a claymation project in your curriculum. You can have the students create a project that will explain a concept they have learned or one they will need to research to create. Remember that completed projects will be less than a minute long.
Equipment needed: You will need a digital camera and tripod. (If a tripod is not available, try taping the camera to a table!) Extra lighting may be needed if the lighting is inadequate in the classroom. Gooseneck desk lamps are good lights. You will not want to use the camera flash. Close up shots tend to be washed out when using a built in flash. You will need a computer with a movie editing software that allows for very short frames of still shots. iMovie HD from iLife 06 is a simple solution. There are several free stop frame animation softwares available for the Windows platform. Always experiment with the software you are planning on using before you begin the project with your students.
Consumable Supplies: You will need placticine clay and wire or other armature for the figures. You will need materials to create backgrounds, foregrounds and sets. Doll furniture and miniatures are excellent for sets.
Be sure to actually do a full test project before trying this with your students! Follow all the directions including the storyboard so that you can learn all about the whys and how's of creating a claymation project.
Links to others using Claymation: Take the time to read up on the experience of other teachers using claymation. It may give you some great ideas of ways to use stop frame animations with your students.
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/Clay-Connie.htm
http://www.animateclay.com
http://library.thinkquest.org/22316/home.html
http://home.neb.rr.com/monarchrose/animation.htm
http://kidsvid-dev.hprtec.org/vidshare/show01.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/25398/Clay/ClayHowTo.html
http://www.jlf.com/clips.html
http://www.aardman.com
http://education.wichita.edu/claymation/videos1.html
http://education.wichita.edu/claymation/
http://teacherweb.com/NE/SchuylerGradeWW/DPrescott/htmlpage2.stm
http://www.saisd.net/SCHOOL/050/StudProj/ClayIndex.htm#
http://rb043.k12.sd.us/claymation_student_examples.htm
http://www.brigantine.atlnet.org/GigapaletteGALLERY/Claymation%20Lesson%20Plans.htm
http://www.brickfilms.com/
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