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Stop Motion Day 3 — Storyboard
Daily Learning Contract
Topic: Visual sequencing for animation
Objective: Students will translate a plot into an ordered visual plan that communicates camera, action, movement, and material needs to a production partner.
TEKS:
- §126.19(c)(3)(B) — discuss and implement a design process that includes planning, selecting digital tools to develop, test, and evaluate design limitations, and refining a prototype or model; and
Demonstration of learning: Submitted 6–12-scene storyboard and materials list that a partner can follow without additional explanation.
Before class
- Prepare storyboard frames, an exemplar, pencils/markers, and action/movement vocabulary.
- Offer a typed, dictated, or labeled-sketch storyboard route.
- Plan a materials-list check before filming begins.
Five-part lesson flow
- Launch: Notice how a storyboard predicts camera and action changes.
- Model: Turn one plot moment into two or three scenes.
- Storyboard: Students map 6–12 ordered scenes.
- Conference: Check order, prop needs, and manageable movement.
- Evidence: Students submit the storyboard and generate a materials list.
Check before students leave
The storyboard has at least six ordered scenes and makes the action, movement, and materials understandable to a production partner.
Support without lowering the thinking
Give students a frame-by-frame template with word bank and arrows for movement. Drawing skill is not the measure; labels, photos, stick figures, or dictated descriptions are valid planning evidence.