Animation as creative media for youth

and sequencing ideas, using words and pictures.

Animation works because of a trick of the human eye called the persistence of vision. When light is used or controlled in the proper way, the eye “remembers” an image it has seen for a split second. If the image is replaced quickly enough with one that is only slightly different, a two-dimensional graphic can appear to be moving.

Adobe Youth Voices Essentials: Animation Curriculum

Visit the Adobe Youth Voices Essentials website to access an array of curricula to help get you started with youth media making.

http://essentials.youthvoices.adobe.com/curriculum/animation-curriculum.aspx

AnimAction

Promoting ‘Awareness through Animation,’ this organization provides professional development and

curriculum for animation projects. Their gallery of media works is a great source of youth-produced PSAs, and, moreover, Adobe Youth Voices is one of the featured projects.

http://www.animaction.com/

Animation: Creating Movement Frame by Frame

This comprehensive resource, created by Young Minds Inspired and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, offers a study guide on animation terminology and techniques.

http://www.oscars.org/education-outreach/teachersguide/animation/index.html

Teaching Simple Animation: Fun with Thaumatropes and Other Big Words

An orientation to teaching young people about animation. Instructions for facilitating two simple hands-on animation projects—thaumatropes and flipbooks—are provided, and many more resources such as lesson

http://www.youthlearn.org/activities/teaching-simple-animation-fun-thaumatropes-and-other-big-words

plans and a flipbook gallery are linked from this page: Animation is an engaging and fun and a great way help youth better understand storytelling