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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Straight Ahead Animation (Practice)

For Students 9th - 10th
Try to make an animation of a bouncing ball by positioning the ball in each frame.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Animation 101 (Practice)

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a 7-problem quiz/practice bouncing a ball using the squash and stretch with Bezier curves.
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Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Squash and Stretch Animation With Bezier Curves

For Students 9th - 10th
In this practice exercise students use the program below to create an animation of a bouncing ball. See if you can get the ball to squash as it hits the ground and stretch as it bounces back.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Start Here! Animation

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview of this lesson on animation. For this lesson we are going to uncover a really useful way to construct Bezier curves of various degrees using de Casteljau's algorithm.
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Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Save Your Animation

For Students 9th - 10th
Make and save your own animation! Use the program below to build your animation. Now you can move the ball anywhere as well as rotate it. Use the x and y avars to position the ball. Use the s avar to control the stretch and squash, and...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Hands on Activity: Animating Luxo Jr.

For Students 4th - 8th
Begin your career as an animator now! This instructional activity is a series of hand-drawn challenges which will introduce some basic animation principles and get you thinking about the physics of motion.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Additional Programming Projects

For Students 9th - 10th
Here are links to 10 projects in our Intro to JS: Drawing & Animation curriculum. Each project is an opportunity for students to be more creative and free-form with their newfound programming knowledge.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Bonus: Equations for Points in Subdivision

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson provides examples that illustrate equations for points in subdivision.
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BBC

Bbc Arts: A Poppy (A Visual Poem)

For Students 9th - 10th
Poetry and animation collide in this ironic wartime tale exploding with flowers.
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BBC

Bbc Arts: Shaking the Spiders Out (A Visual Poem)

For Students 9th - 10th
An animated poem about the "spiders" that writers sometimes have to face.
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BBC

Bbc Arts: Flight Comes Easy (A Visual Poem)

For Students 9th - 10th
This animated poem reminds us about the importance of taking risks.
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California State University

Cartoon Creation

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson show them a clip of one of their favorites and then show them how to make their own cartoon animation. Simple and fun for everyone.
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University of Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts: Rasmol & Chime

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Massachusetts links to downloadable freeware (Rasmol and CHIME) which are required to view 3-D images common on organic chemistry tutorials.
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Other

Sunny Hillside Antiques: Magic Lantern

For Students 9th - 10th
The site includes images from Magic Lantern slides, a little background on Nursery Lanterns and learning games and trivia information. Check out the links to other sites too!
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South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: Artopia: Media Studio: Animation Basics

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief demonstration of how a flipbook can be used to create a short animation. Place five images in the correct order and press play to animate.
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Other

Akemi's Anime World: Anime Faq

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Akemi's Anime World offers answers to some commonly asked questions about anime, including what anime is, the reason for certain stylistic characteristics, and much more.
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Other

Fear of Physics: Roller Coaster

For Students 9th - 10th
Use animation and other interactive strategies to help understand physics principles. Change the track and height to see if your ball can make it to the end.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Biography for Kids: Walt Disney

For Students 9th - 10th
Kids learn about the biography of entrepreneur Walt Disney including early life, work as an artist, beginning animation, movies and television, theme parks, and fun facts on this site.
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Other

Just Disney: Walt Disney Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive biography of famous pioneer and animator Walt Disney. Links to his filmography and a photo gallery are included.
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Curated OER

Lunar Eclipse Animation

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a moving diagram of a Lunar eclipse, showing Earth's umbra and penumbra and the appearance of the Moon as it passes through these shadow regions.