The fifth grade students have started learning about stop-motion animation.  We discussed how stop-motion animation is simply stringing together a set of images to make it appear that objects are moving.  We tried to animate objects in ways that are not normal.  We use a digital camera and a program called istopmotion to build our animations.We will be furthering this idea after our holiday break and making more animations and experimenting with different animation techniques so check back often!

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