Objective:

Students will look at images by Rene Magritte.  They will create an animation that is based on one of these images using the stopmotion animation technique and Adobe Premiere Elements.

Objective:

Students will learn about how animation teams plan their projects through storyboards and make a storyboard for their own project.

Many elementary students have never imagined that they could express their every day thoughts in the form of a comic. 
This lesson introduces them to this idea and shows a few ways it has been interpreted.

Objective:

Students will look at several different kinds of journal/autobiographical comics and then make a one page story about something that happened to them.

Be sure to check out the student examples from this lesson here.

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Objective:

Students will be introduced to the various camera angles and ways to frame images used in photography, film, video and comic books.  They will apply this knowledge to making a 6 panel comic book page that retells a part of a fairy tale.  This comic should use a variety of different ways to frame images and use no writen words to tell the story.