Claymation

** CLAY-MATION **
 * iSTOPMOTION **
 * Area of Interaction: Health and Social Education **
 * Significant Concept: Students should understand the positive and negative consequences of an action and should be able to use iStop, iMovie, iDVD and Garageband for projects in all subject areas. **
 * Unit Question: How do my choices impact my life? **


 * REQUIREMENTS: **


 * 1) ** Take the Claymation Test on Skyward before you begin. **
 * 2) ** Create a new page on your wiki and name it "iStopMotion". Copy and paste this page into your wiki. **
 * 3) ** Use the Design Cycle to create your claymation. **
 * 4) ** Create a one-minute video using your own clay models, iStopMotion, and iMovie. **
 * 5) ** Use iStopMotion to create your video, use iMovie to edit your video. **
 * 6) ** Your movie needs to answer the question, "How do my choices impact my life". You need to show the positive and negative consequence of a choice. **
 * 7) ** Create the background and/or backdrop for your movie. You need to make it, do not use the backgrounds in iStop. **
 * 8) ** Once the movie is created export it to iMovie. **
 * 9) ** Add your own GarageBand or iMovie song/sound effects to your movie. **
 * 10) ** You must have a title at the beginning and end of your movie. Titles will count as ten seconds of your movie. **
 * 11) ** Upload your movie onto your wikispace. **
 * 12) ** You will receive MYP grades and an academic grade for this assignment. **

[|story board.pdf]
 * INVESTIGATE: **
 * 1. Take the test on [|Skyward] **.
 * 2. Why are you using the Design Cycle for this assignment? **
 * So that we will plan what we are doing before we waste all of our time with an idea that doesnt fit the question. **
 * 3. How will the Design Cycle help you with this assignment? **
 * It will force us to think abut the real question you are asking and answer it correctly. **
 * 5. Answer the Design Brief questions below: **
 * - What materials do you have for this assignment? **
 * A box, clay, construction paper **
 * - What software is required for you to use for this assignment? **
 * iStopmotion **
 * - How will you earn an academic grade for this assignment? **
 * By doing it well **
 * - How will you earn your MYP grades for this assignment? **
 * By answering the question and filling out the wiki. **
 * - How can my choices change the lives of others positively and negatively? **
 * Making choices that are positive to yourself often have positive affects on those around you as do negative choices, even simple choices of how you act because of your mood can affect hose around you. **
 * - How can my choices change my life positively and negatively? **
 * If i choose not to do my homework, i feel bad. If i do it, i buy myself something nice **
 * - Why is it important to make positive choices in your life? **
 * Positive choices usually result in positive consequences **
 * - Why is it important to our country that you make positive choices? **
 * If you make a nationally recognized bad decision, you will probably ruin the country and go to prison. **
 * PLAN: **
 * 6. Brainstorm ideas for you clay-mation. Here is the chart: [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png caption="external image pdf.png" link="http://bradfieldtechnology.wikispaces.com/file/view/IB+Brainstorming+Chart+.pdf"]] [|IB Brainstorming Chart .pdf] **
 * 7. Select one of your ideas and explain why you chose that idea: Cascading consquences of choosing to text and drive . **
 * 9. Use the story board paper to plan your clay-mation. Here is the storyboard: **
 * 10. Explain how you and your group will use your time to get your project finished in 12 days: (You need to explain who is going to do what, and how you will get this project done in 12 days. **
 * ** Day 1: Plan out what we will do **
 * ** Day 2: Collect clay and start sculpting **
 * ** Day 3: sculpt **
 * ** Day 4: finish sculpting **
 * ** Day 5:start on set **
 * ** Day 6: finish set **
 * ** Day 7:film first 10 seconds **
 * ** Day 8: film second 10 seconds **
 * ** Day 9: film third 10 seconds **
 * Day 10: 4th 10 seconds
 * ** Day 11: 5th 10 seconds **
 * ** Day 12: 6th 10 seconds; put together and finish **


 * CREATE: **
 * ** Use the computer, software, clay and other materials appropriately. **
 * ** Follow the steps of the plan you made in question #9. **
 * **Follow your storyboard.**
 * ** Pay attention to the quality of your presentation! **


 * EVALUATE: **
 * 11. If you made any changes to your plan or story board, explain why you changed it: We didn't **
 * ** Why did you change your plan? We didn't **
 * ** Why did you change your story board? We didn't **
 * 12. How could you improve your movie? more fliud movement of characters **
 * 13. Does your movie meet all of the requirements? Yes **
 * 14. Share your movie with at least one friend. What did he/she like about your movie? The sound effects. **
 * 15. Give yourself a grade for each step of the Design Cycle: (1 - 6) **
 * ** Investigate:6 **
 * ** Plan:6 **
 * ** Create:6 **
 * ** Evaluate:6 **
 * 16. Were you responsible in using the software, computer, clay, and other materials? yes **
 * 17. How do my choices impact my life? (Write at least a paragraph. Explain both positive and negative consequences, and how your choices impact others.) **
 * Well, your life is only the cumulative of all your choices. People judge you on the choices you make. You are the sum of your choices. The thing people will remember you by is your choice. People also seem to like to focus on your negative choices rather than your positive choices. So, make positive choices so they have no negative choices to judge you by. **


 * ATTITUDE: **
 * 18. Reflect on your attitude on each step of the Design Cycle. Did you completely answer each step without complaining, being a whiny baby, or saying "it's too hard"?. Explain your answer:yes. i was happy the whole time **
 * 19. Did you complete iStopMotion without complaining, being a whiny baby, or saying "it's too hard"?: yes **
 * 20. What grade do you deserve on your attitude? (1 - 6) 6 **


 * How You Will Receive a Letter Grade: **
 * 1) ** Investigate: 10 **
 * 2) ** Design: 10 **
 * 3) ** Plan: 10 **
 * 4) ** Create: 10 **
 * 5) ** Evaluate: 10 **
 * 6) ** Attitude: 10 **
 * 7) ** Your movie was at least a minute: 10 **
 * 8) ** You answered the unit question: 20 **
 * 9) ** Your movie answered the unit question: 20 (Shows the positive and negative consequence of a choice) **
 * 10) ** You made your own back drop: 10 **
 * 11) ** Your movie had titles, music, and sound effects: 30 **
 * 12) ** TOTAL = 150 POINTS **

(Ms. Bradfield, we made a video too awesome for this website to handle, so I would like to kindly request you look at the Jakadd.m4v File on our computer)