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Mechanical
Thaumatropes are disks with a picture on each side. When the disk is twirled quickly the two pictures appear to blend into one. This is a good starter project for animation.
Flipbooks combine a series of images to create a short animation. They are a good next step after thaumatropes for helpng kids understand how animation works.
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Google Slides
In the Ball Bounce project students animate a ball by changing its position slightly for a series of Google slides. This is a good starter project for traditional animation.
This project shows food travelling through the digestive system. This is a good application of traditional animation in science.
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Stop-Motion
In the puzzle project students animate a puzzle putting itself together and taking itself apart. This is a good starter project for stop motion animation.
Mini Mes are proportional dolls of students that are used to create a stop motion dance animation. This is a good application of stop-motion animation in math.
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