Animated food chain - Scratch animation

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Mountains, Rivers and Coasts Coasts - Where Land Meets Sea

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Objectives

Computing

To select, use and combine a variety of software (including internet services) on a range of digital devices to design and create a range of programs, systems and content that accomplish given goals, including collecting, analysing, evaluating and presenting data and information.

Science

To construct and interpret a variety of food chains, including producers, predators, and prey.

Lesson Planning

Use the IT programme Scratch to create a simple stop-motion animation about a coastal food chain; add titles, credits and an audio narration to create a mini movie.

Teaching Outcomes:

To use (insert name of animation software) to create a stop motion animation for an audience.
To explore Scratch animation and use it to create their own animation creation.
To show an understanding of a coastal food chain using animation.

Children will:

Work together to create animals, plants and a background to form a coastal food chain.
Explore Scratch and create a simple animation by entering instructions for a character into Scratch animation.
Spend time filming a stop-motion animation about their food chain for an audience.
Experiment using an animation software program to play their mini movie, including adding a title and credits.
Add their own audio narration to the animation.

Planning

Provided Resources

Coastal food chain animation planning sheet.

Unit Resources

You Will Need

A small cardboard box with one side removed
Digital camera
Tripod
Chicken Run or similar DVD

Weblinks

Creating a stop motion animation from wikihow.com
Scratch animation site, create, edit and share stop animation from scratch.mit.edu