4th Grade Animated Important Poems

Students used the program Frames to create digitally animated characters of themselves reading important poems modeled after those in Margaret Wise Brown’s book The Important Poem. Characters were created by manipulating and layering shapes. Then, after selecting a relevant background, students duplicated frames altering mouths and eyes to animate their character. Finally, students edited their frames so the length of the images matched the length of the recordings. Timing mouth and eye movements with breaks in speech was especially challenging! Check out their movies here.