Stop Motion - Helping to see Processes and Progression

Stop animation is ideal for helping students learn about concepts that involve processes and progressions — anything that benefits from including an element of movement to explain how it works. (Try ClapMotion or Stop Motion Animator) For example, they can draw illustrations or use toys, Legos, manipulatives or household objects, such as cotton balls, to represent abstract concepts, like molecules or equations. Stop animation is also remarkably versatile. You can use it for just about every subject. Here are a few ideas to spark your imagination: 

Science: process of erosion, life cycles, food webs, collecting energy, moon phases, fossilization, planet rotations, and recessive and dominant gene inheritance. 

Math: concepts that involve progression. place value, fractions, counting, patterns, addition, subtraction and fact families. 

Social studies: re-enact events, historical figure’s life, depict timelines 
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ClapMotion
Arrange your objects, pictures or whatever you have and simply clap your hands to take a photo. Move them around and clap again and in no time you’ll have your own animation!






Stop Motion Animator

A simple tool for creating stop motion animation sequences using a webcam. Animation sequences can be saved to a video file in the widely-supported webm format. Previously-saved videos can be loaded back in and added to.