NO Elephants Lesson Plan. But No Elephants. Bird Cage Optical Illusion ∙ How To by DarkAshHurts on Cut Out. Barrier-Grid (or Picket-Fence) Animation. I came across this movie technique on the fun illusion website Brainden.com.
It seems to have been around for decades, but I’ve not nailed down its history. A beautiful recent booklet of barrier-grid animations is Colin Ord’s Magic Moving Images. Recently a new, more sophisticated version of the technique has been patented by Rufus Butler Seder, called Scanimation. There’s a Youtube movie of him explaining it, as well as a fascinating, more technical description on the design site DesignBoom. He’s also published a number of great books for kids using his process. You’ll often find it stated on the WWW that barrier-grid animations and Seder’s Scanimations are the same process, but, as above, there’s a patented difference.
In Seder’s and Ord’s books, the illusion happens in the real world, when you pass a real striped acetate mask over the composite base image. The hatched silhouettes are then combined into a composite image, like the one in the animation at the head of the post. Magic Moving Images 1.1 App for iPad, iPhone - Entertainment - app by CrowdCafé. Mysterious images transform into magical animations right on the screen of your iPhone or iPod Touch!
Slide the magic grid over static images and they will come to life as real objects. Make the elephant gallop, musketeers fight, shapes spin around and 3D objects turn and experience the animated optical illusion like no other. Everything carefully designed for your touch device. Mfklessons-storytelling-all. Storytelling lesson plans for elementary school teachers. Storytelling in the Classroom. Gifts of Story (Free Stories for Storytelling) “Gifts of Story” is a series of storytelling adaptations of stories by Aaron Shepard.
You are welcome to tell these or any other stories by Aaron in live performance or broadcast, but please mention the author and the children’s book, if any. (For other uses, please see Aaron’s Rights & Permissions.) Special features are available for most of the stories. These can include reader’s theater scripts, printable color posters, photo features, audio recordings, extended author notes, fun writing exercises, and alternate story versions.
To find these features, click on links to Aaron’s Extras. Storyteller.net: Storytelling, Storytellers, Stories, Story, Storytelling Techniques, Hear a Story, Read Stories, Audio Stories, Find Tellers, How to Tell A Story - Welcome. Magic Stories. Magic Stories This activity involves the whole class creating a story together.
The story is not written down, and is made up spontaneously by individuals in the class. 1) Find a suitable pen (or other object) which can be passed around the classroom easily. 2) Tell the children that the pen / object which you are holding up is M A G I C because people who hold it can tell wonderful stories. 3) Explain that no-one is allowed to talk unless they are holding the pen (that includes the teacher!).
Examples of introductions… 1) Paul was bored. It was halfway through the summer holidays and he was fed up, so he decided to go exploring. He climbed up to the top of the stairs, when he saw a door which had never been there before. He went in and in the middle of the room was a strange purple box. 2) "Base to Captain SkyFighter, Base to Captain SkyFighter. 3) There once was a witch called Wanda. 4) Bobby the Bunny was fast asleep. 5) Katie was playing on her computer. . - YES!