Education Examples

Ghost in the Farmhouse

Mr. T. and his 13 years old students at an international school in Tokyo made this dramatic movie with iStopMotion, iMovie and GarageBand. Well done!

Car Race

A claymation made by 5th grade students from Steinfort. There are many more animations from this school available on YouTube.

Foraminifer with Dinoflagellates

This time lapse (~90x real-time) video-microscopy shows the interaction between two marine microorganisms, a foraminifer and dinoflagellate algae. The large disc-shaped thing is the foraminifer, it is collecting the dinoflagellates around it. These dinoflagellates are the same algae that live inside corals, and these foraminifera have a similar symbiotic relationship with their algae as do corals. Scientists can use this kind of time-lapse video to compress processes that happen on a longer time scale into a few seconds, increasing our understanding of the dynamic nature of the living world. Scott Fay of the UC Berkeley used a Nikon inverted phase contrast scope and a Nikon D80 camera.

Animal Hospital Animation

Watch a 3-year-old girl make a stop motion animation with iStopMotion, a PowerBook and an iSight. The making of comes just after the main feature.

The Snowman

Made by an 11-year old girl in 6th grade in a one week animation class at her school. The animation is felt board captured at 12 fps.

Grandad and Olivia: At the Zoo

Granddad and Olivia post their first iStopMotion video on YouTube. They used Zoo toys, a cheap video camera, a 60W daylight bulb and iStopMotion to have fun and learn together.

Experiments in Clay

by thirteen year old Sean Laman.

Fish Animation

Christian Klette visited a Museum with his students and after that they animated a fish with some pieces of paper and iStopMotion. They also used the same technique to animate a soccer scene.

Unity Elementary School in Balsam Lake, Wisconsin

Greg Paulsen uses iStopMotion with his second grade class to create two movies: The first movie is about a famous movie dog named Rin Tin Tin. The students read a story about him and then tried to retell it in the movie. Later the class has been studying about dinosaurs - the subject of their second movie "Dino Land".

 

 
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