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=What is Animation?=
 * =**Word Bank**= || = = ||
 * =animation= || =flip book= ||
 * =modern= || =claymation= ||
 * =stop motion= || =motion= ||

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x68kuu_bugs-bunny-baton-bunny_fun
When a set of pictures arranged in order are moved very quickly this is called -. This is how cartoons are made. These are also called “motion pictures.”  === Fill in the blank with a word from the word bank. ===

See how each picture is just a little bit different. See how the objects in the pictures look like they are moving?
 The  is one of the first types of -- (present day) animation. Since each picture is slightly different, when they are flipped, it looks like the objects are moving.

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Create a flip book of your own. Take a picture of your flip book. Follow the directions to post your picture to your wikispace.

Watch the stop motion video at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Muybridge_race_horse_animated.gif
When someone uses a camera to take photos of an object that gradually changes to look like it is has moved that is called --. Each photograph shows the object in the picture as it has changed.

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Look at the pictures of the horse. Working with your teacher and the group, can you put the horse in order to make it look like it is moving?

When you have arranged the pictures, make it into a flip book and watch the horse run.

Watch your teacher bounce the ball. Now, look at the cut out pictures of the ball. Can you put them in order to make the ball look like it is bouncing? Take a picture of your pieces.

Follow the directions for posting your picture to your wikispace.

Watch the video of the bouncing ball at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation

Look at the clay figures. What do you notice about them? Watch the video at http://www.teachertube.com/v.php?viewkey=bd3913fb84c7963a209d

-- is when movie makers use clay figures to make movies.

Watch the movie at http://www.tech4learning.com/claykit.

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Use the clay to make a clay object. With the camera take a picture.

Follow the directions for loading the picture into your wikispace.