Animation Lesson

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

Arts Education

Grade(s)

5

Overview

Students will learn about the roles and jobs in animation. They will create an animation based on a storyboard they drew.  

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 5 - Media Arts

AE17.MED.5.1

Present original ideas and innovations for media arts products, utilizing personal experiences and/or the work of others.

UP:AE17.MED.5.1

Vocabulary

Original
  • Synthesize
  • Innovation
Proposal
  • Concept
  • Action Plan
  • Materials List
  • Roles/ Team Needed
Design
Purpose
  • Persuade
  • Discredit
Meaning
  • Subtext
  • Connotation vs. Denotation
Principles
  • Emphasis
  • Exaggeration

Essential Questions

EU: Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts.
EQ: How do media artists generate ideas? How can ideas for media arts productions be formed and developed to be effective and original?

Skills Examples

  • Brainstorm with a group and list many, varied, and unusual ideas for a class media arts project. Use a storyboard to capture and organize ideas to advertise a product in a new way with a new message.
  • In a group and after brainstorming choose one idea and create a plan and/or model for a media arts production that meets the group's artistic goals based on the elements of design. Challenge the model by getting feedback from classmates and revise the storyboard to better communicate to the audience.
  • After researching choose many and varied images for a media arts production that convey a chosen purpose. Images and sounds will use emphasis and exaggeration.
  • Refine a media arts project from feedback to get a specific audience reaction, communicating through metaphor and symbolism.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 5 - Media Arts

AE17.MED.5.5

Create media artworks through the integration of multiple contents and forms.

UP:AE17.MED.5.5

Vocabulary

Integration
Artistic Skills
Design Skills
Technical Skills
Career Skills
Formal vs. Informal Techniques
Fundamental
Conventions
Purpose

Essential Questions

EU: Media artists integrate various forms and contents to develop complex, unified artworks.
EQ: How are complex media arts experiences constructed?

Skills Examples

  • Choose and share a media arts product that shows a complex variety of academics, arts and media forms.
  • In a creative team with assigned roles, use creative thinking to choose a topic for a media arts project that combines two art forms and has been revised at least twice. The project will reflect an original story with a clear persuasive purpose, message, and meaning using metaphor.
  • Create a media arts product that addresses a specific problem in the community and revise the product at least twice, using media arts conventions in an advanced way.
  • In a creative team with assigned roles, explore the tools available in the classroom in both a standard and novel way and suggest novel ways for using what is available in a media arts product.
  • After listing qualities and purposes for a presentation, choose a media arts presentation to share with a younger group of students about a topic being studied science.
  • After sharing a media arts product with a younger group of students about a topic being studied science, debrief with the class about the results and improvements that could be made for the presentation.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.
Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 5 - Media Arts

AE17.MED.5.15

Access and use internal and external resources to create media arts productions.

UP:AE17.MED.5.15

Vocabulary

Resources
  • internal
  • external
Culture
  • society
  • values
Research
  • question
  • compare information
  • cause and effect
Ethics
  • fair
  • prudent
  • law

Essential Questions

EU: Media artworks synthesize meaning and form cultural experience.
EQ: How do we relate knowledge and experiences to understanding and making media artworks? How do we learn about and create meaning through producing media artworks?

Skills Examples

  • Combine two art forms to describe a memory of a news event along with research about the event into media arts product and show effect on culture.
  • Share with the class a favorite media arts production (i.e., YouTube video, etc.), and include the meaning and message of the event along with its effect on culture at large, specifically through changing daily language and behavior.
  • Through teacher-led discussion and by responding to questions, describe how media arts productions experienced everyday are part of the school community and affect family life.
  • Cite sources in any media arts products using APA Style and forecast the possible interpretations and reactions to media arts products.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.

CR Resource Type

Lesson/Unit Plan

Resource Provider

ScreenSkills

License Type

Custom
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Custom License Type (URL)

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