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Create impressive stop-motion animations with this all-in-one kit. Stop-motion animation is a great team-building activity that encourages problem-solving, collaboration and creativity for kids at all experience levels. Software included.
Inspire kids to produce polished broadcasts, short movies, presentations and more. All the green screen technology a media lab or makerspace could need comes in this powerful kit. Easy-to-use editing software included.
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Wonderosity Kits are themed, bundled plans that can easily be integrated into your current curriculum or used on their own. Each kit includes four program plans, ideas to extend learning, access to downloadable support materials and resources, and more. Try out the sample lesson below, and learn more about the kits available for purchase at demco.com.
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This guide for educators is filled with ideas for integrating stop-motion animation across curriculum and subjects. Video links to sample projects are included.
This guide introduces the key concepts of media literacy and illustrates the need for us to become better informed about mass media. Students will view and discuss examples of advertising and critically analyze an animated film.
This guide explores the history and types of animation and introduces the many forms of stop-motion animation. Students will watch examples of stop-motion and direct-on-film animation and discuss the differences between them.
This guide provides an overview of the basic equipment required for stop-motion animation. Students will learn about timing and the Three Main Principles of Animation. They will also make a flipbook and discover the Twelve Principles of Animation.
This guide outlines the important stage of "planning" and introduces the process of storyboarding and storytelling. Students will view examples of each other's work and learn the process of creating a collaborative storyboard.
This guide offers ideas to help students make 2D or 3D sets or backgrounds for their animated videos. Students will also learn about lighting techniques and critique a scene from an animated film using the elements and principles of design.
This guide provides the tools you need to introduce students to media literacy. Students will view examples of advertising and discuss the messages conveyed, examine the Key Concepts of Media Literacy and critically analyze an animated film.
This guide introduces students to the process of storyboarding. Students will work collaboratively to identify a topic for their group video production and create a storyboard, as well as learn about camera angles and point of view.
This guide will help you introduce students to the technique of chroma keying using a green screen. Students will analyze video clips, then do their own portrait study using chroma key techniques.
In this guide, students will learn the terms and jargon utilized in the broadcast/video production industry, as well as the value of group work and collaboration.
This guide will help students develop strong interview skills. Students will learn how news develops from people's natural curiosity about the people, places, events and situations of daily life and generate news story ideas from their own lives.
Support STEM learning by teaching students how to create their own vibrating Bristlebots in minutes. Simple to create and fun to play with, Bristlebots make a great project for students of all ages.
Use this guide to teach students how to create a solar bug. Students will love this simple fun-filled craft project that uses the power of the sun to move a vibrating motor.
Use this guide to teach students how to create a solar roach. Students will love this simple soldering project that uses the sun to power a vibrating motor.
With this guide, you can teach students how to create a fidget spinner using a 3D printer. The spinner is designed with standard LEGO-size studs, making it compatible with Crazy Circuits parts. Add a battery holder and LEDs, and you'll have a fidget spinner students will love!
Build a capacitive touch-based piano or synthesizer using Crazy Circuits. This is a great example of how to create a large-scale or wall piano for a library or classroom. The piano works great with conductive paint or Squishy Circuits dough and uses Bare Conductive Paint as interactive touch points.
This guide teaches you how to use Bare Conductive Paint to create fun sound effects. Students will have a blast controlling the sound being produced by a Piezo speaker hooked up to a touch board.
Teach students how to make adorable black cats with glowing LED eyes using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.
Use this guide to teach students how to create a fun light-up cephalopod using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.
Use this guide to teach students how to create a light-up Christmas tree using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.
Use this guide to teach students how to create pretty light-up flowers using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.
Use this guide to teach students how to make an adorable "Franken" terrier with glowing bolts using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.
Use this guide to teach students how to make an adorably grumpy Halloween friend with glowing LED eyes using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.
Use this guide to teach students how to make a holiday candle with glowing LED flame using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.
Use this guide to teach students how to make an adorable Halloween friend with glowing LED eyes using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.
Use this guide to teach students how to make a cute penguin with a glowing LED star using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.
Use this guide to teach students how to make a dinosaur friend with a glowing LED eye using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.
Use this guide to teach students how to make a reindeer with a light-up red nose using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.
Use this guide to teach students how to make an adorable spider with glowing LED eyes using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.
Use this guide to teach students how to make a sugar skull with glowing LED eyes using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.
Use this guide to teach students how to make an adorable T-Rex with a glowing LED eye using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.
Use this guide to teach students how to make a triceratops friend with a glowing LED eye using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.
Use this guide to teach students how to make a "turkminator" with a glowing LED eye using Paper Circuits and conductive tape.
Use this guide to teach students how to create a simple Larson Scanner out of four LEDs and use it to bring a LEGO pumpkin to life.
With this guide, you can teach students how to create a giant NES game controller out of LEGOs and use it to play silly games on the computer.
Create alternating lights for the LEGO Ambulance using a Crazy Circuits touch board. This guide can also be applied to similar LEGO sets and projects.
Teach students how to use Squishy Circuits conductive dough to create fun sound effects. In this activity, students will use the dough to control the sound being produced by a Piezo speaker hooked up to a Crazy Circuits touch board.
Students will love turning on LEDs using Squishy Circuits conductive dough and the Crazy Circuits touch board. This guide demonstrates how to use the dough as touch points to activate up to four LEDs.
With this guide, you can teach students how to create a simple digital temperature station with a humidity sensor.
Students will love creating a silly flying monster that they can wear! Use this guide to learn how to make this fun project.
Students can show off their heartbeats with this fun wearable project. All you need is a Crazy Circuits board and a simple Pulse Sensor to create a heart monitor. Sew it on a shirt, and you can literally wear your heart on your sleeve!
Teach students to create interactive, light-up NASA shirts. This project uses a Crazy Circuits touch board to change the pattern of five LEDs on the shirt.
Teach students how to build their own capacitive touch-based piano or synthesizer using Crazy Circuits. The piano works great with conductive paint or Squishy Circuits dough and uses Bare Conductive Paint as interactive touch points.
Teach students how to create their own light-up ugly sweaters with a few LEDs, some conductive thread, and the Crazy Circuits Blink/Fade Board.
With this guide, you can teach students how to make their very own red-nosed reindeer sock puppet. This simple project just requires students to sew on two components and glue on ears and antlers.
With this guide, you can teach students how to create a conductive sewing bracelet that uses button snaps and Crazy Circuits. This simple project can be made with a variety of themes. The circuit is "turned on" when the two button snaps are connected, making for a fun and interactive end project.
Use this guide to teach students a simple Rudolph-themed sewing project using Crazy Circuits. Students will love making Rudolph's nose light up on this fun ornament!
This guide introduces the process of creating clay characters. Students will learn about armatures and view examples of animated films that employ them. They will then create and build characters for their own stop-motion animation videos.
Teach through experimentation! Students will construct a simple electric propeller car, then use iterative design to innovate and optimize for speed by changing blade shape, size, and material.
Use common materials to explore buoyancy and power! Experimentation and tinkering allows students to evolve their boat through the engineering design process, creating unique propellers by changing blade shape, angle, and number.
Immerse students in introductory electronics by empowering them to create their own lively bug. Physical, interactive learning produces creatures buzzing with personality, inspiring students to “catch the bug” for STEM.
Engage students in the thought-provoking design and construction of their own exciting Rube Goldberg-style machines. Help them conceptualize, understand, and create both simple and complex mechanisms.
Off to the races! Bring unique battery-powered cars to the classroom and inspire students to explore design, science, technology, engineering, and math processes using recycled materials such as wood, metal, and plastic.
Fly your flag high! Students will combine gears, pulleys, and cams to convert rotary motion into linear motion, raising, lowering, and waving the flags of their choice with the simple turn of a crank.
Gear up to help students discover how different assemblies change rotation, speed, and direction, allowing them to tap, push, ream, and cut. They can build and tinker endlessly!
Reach for greatness! This hydraulic-powered, remote-controlled arm is built totally by your students. Constructed by measuring, cutting, reaming, and tapping, it can accomodate any design they can imagine.
Get a grip on simple machines and hydraulics with a claw that works just like the ones in the arcade. Encourage creativity, problem-solving, and critical thinking by challenging students to engineer claws that pick up specific objects.
Students explore force, balance, momentum, mechanical advantage, and robotics by designing their very own Judo-Bot that can move up, down, and side to side in a rumble with classmates!
Teach students to harness the power of the wind and convert it into electricity. Help them explore truly green engineering through inquiry and experimentation. Adjust angle, pitch, and blade number to transform the turbine into a unique design.
Teaching kinetic and potential energy is a snap with this mousetrap-powered race car. Students can experiment with components to send their cars off faster, farther, and carrying more weight.
Take aim at creativity, creative thinking, and problem-solving. Students will use engineering, kinetic and potential energy, and the scientific method to create a unique launcher that can also toss, kick, or ram!
Students explore forces and motion by experimenting with sail shape, angle, and placement to engineer a car that goes the greatest distance, travels the fastest, or carries the most weight.
Combine data-driven components with recycling bin innovation to explore force in the form of a unique, animated kinetic toy. Students can design figures that box, dance, or fly in any direction, adding personalized logos to leave their mark
Put frequency and wavelength on paper with an electric-motor Scribble-Bot, or let students design their own innovative, battery-powered bots to explore how the flow of electrons can make them race, dance, or paddle.
Harness the power of pressurized carbon dioxide! Teach students how to transfer mechanical advantages with links, gears, and more. When the yeast is gone, the fun isn’t over — mobiles can become rubber band racers or other contraptions.
Students construct a unique lift using the principles of wind energy, torque, mechanical advantage, and more. They can adjust blade shape, number, angle, and area to discover how these changes affect the instrument’s output.
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This unit of 5 lessons introduces the concepts and basic process for media production. Age-appropriate content analysis options are presented, making this unit scalable for grades K-12.
This unit of six lessons introduces the concepts and basic process for creating animated features. Age-appropriate content options are presented, making this unit scalable for grades K–12.
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