The Primary National Strategy encourages teachers to “Create a visual adaptation of a simple text using toys, modelling clay, play figures and stop-frame animation techniques”<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Animation means children have to solve problems, make decisions and judgements, evaluate and improve their projects and review and reflect on their learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Animation is a multifaceted form of art. You have to create a story, create characters, make them from modelling clay or plasticine, design and make sets, compose soundtracks, write narration or select appropriate recorded music to enhance a film. Animation means children have to solve problems, make decisions and judgements, evaluate and improve their projects and review and reflect on their learning. Children have fun with their friends making a film, often not realising that they are in fact working hard, learning new skills, applying new theories and sharing fresh ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We’ve put together some suggestions for ways to bring your lessons to life with animation here<\/a> and teacher testimonials can be read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Schools wishing to place an order can do so using a purchase order<\/a> or send us a quotation request through the website shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Jane Bowser from High Point University<\/a> in High Point, North Carolina . Dr. Bowser\u2019s education students completed a very successful first project using myCreate for iPad and Lego StoryStarters<\/a> with students from a local elementary school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Students in Dr. Bowser\u2019s class are working towards their degrees in education and developed a series of six to eight hour-long lessons that were used over the course of the fall semester. The university class worked with students from one of the local Title I elementary schools for the project. The university students and the elementary students then created their final project in a morning long session on campus at High Point University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Bowser told us, \u201cThe combination of the hands-on construction with Lego StoryStarters and the ease of capturing the story with myCreate resulted in an all around successful experience for the K12 students and teacher candidates alike!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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