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Stop Motion Studio in Education
Unlock Creativity in Your Classroom
Stop Motion Studio is a powerful and engaging tool for educators, offering a fun and interactive way for students to learn and express their creativity. Integrating stop motion animation into your curriculum can significantly enhance learning across various subjects, boost student engagement, and foster a collaborative environment.
Why Stop Motion Studio in the Classroom?
Unlock Potential, Engage Minds, Foster Collaboration
- Engages Students: Its interactive, hands-on nature captures students' interest and encourages active, enthusiastic participation.
- Enhances Learning: Helps students grasp complex concepts by allowing them to visualize and animate abstract ideas.
- Fosters Creativity: Cultivates creative thinking, problem-solving skills, and innovative expression.
- Supports STEAM Education: Integrates seamlessly into Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) programs, providing a versatile learning platform.
“This app combines still images to make a stop motion animation film. In the Social Studies classroom students can move figurines across the screen to show a historical event in action. In the Math classroom students can use virtual manipulatives to model the solution to a math problem.” — classtechtips.com
“Stop Motion Studio gives students a captivating outlet for their creative ideas and voice. And during the production process, it introduces them to sophisticated concepts such as time, storyboarding, audience, and citizenship, even at the youngest elementary age.” — scarsdaleschools.org
Stop Motion Studio Lesson Ideas
Inspire Learning Across the Curriculum
Integrate Stop Motion Studio into a wide range of subjects to deepen understanding and ignite imagination:
- Mathematics: Visualize geometric concepts, animate mathematical processes, or explain complex problems and their solutions.
- Science: Illustrate scientific concepts or explain experimental procedures. For example, students could create an animation demonstrating the states of matter.
- Health and Physical Education: Have students create animations highlighting the importance of healthy food choices and lifestyle.
- Language Arts: Bring a favorite book, poem, or original story to life. Students can animate characters, settings, and plot points to deepen literary comprehension and creative writing skills.
- Social Studies: Recreate historical events, explore different cultures, or animate complex social concepts through engaging storytelling. For example, animate the Battle of Gettysburg.
- Storytelling: Encourage students to write a short story or script, then use Stop Motion Studio to create an animated version, enhancing narrative development skills.
- Art: Experiment with diverse artistic styles, materials, and media to produce unique animated pieces.
- Music: Create animations that visually interpret a song, a musical piece, or even illustrate lyrics, blending visual and auditory arts.
Tips for the Classroom
Maximize the Educational Impact of Stop Motion Studio
- Start with a Storyboard: Encourage students to plan their animations meticulously with storyboards. This crucial step organizes thoughts and ensures a smoother, more efficient animation process.
- Set Clear Objectives: Clearly define the learning outcomes for each project. Whether it's mastering a scientific process or honing storytelling skills, clear objectives keep students focused and learning-centered.
- Encourage Collaboration: Promote teamwork by organizing students into groups. This approach not only makes the animation process more manageable but also significantly fosters essential collaborative and communication skills.
- Utilize Available Resources: Take full advantage of our tutorials and pre-designed lesson plans to effectively guide your students through their animation projects.
Resources
Enhance Your Teaching with Our Comprehensive Resources:
- Tutorial Videos: Access our extensive library of video tutorials to quickly get you and your students started and mastering the app. Watch Tutorial Videos
- Manual: Refer to our comprehensive manual for detailed instructions and advanced tips on using Stop Motion Studio. Stop Motion Studio Manual
- Storyboard Template: Planning your animation on paper saves valuable time and energy. We've prepared a printable storyboard template for your convenience. Download Storyboard Template
- Cardboard iPad Stand: Learn how to design and build an economical iPad stand to ensure tablet stability during photo capture. Designing and building your own Cardboard iPad Stand
Discounted Bulk Purchase
Equip Your Entire Classroom with Stop Motion Studio
We offer discounted rates for bulk purchases to educational institutions, making it affordable to equip your classroom with the tools needed to unleash creativity and animation in your lessons. Stop Motion Studio is compatible with iPhone, iPad, macOS, Windows, Android, Chromebook, and Amazon Fire devices.
Purchase for iPhone, iPad, or macOS
The full version of Stop Motion Studio is available at a significant discount through the Educational Volume Purchase Program (VPP), now seamlessly integrated into Apple School Manager. This specialized version includes all features with no in-app purchases.
Please note: Apple does not provide direct links to the app within Apple School Manager. To locate the app, simply search for Stop Motion Studio Pro (look for the pink icon) on the School Manager page.
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The macOS version of Stop Motion Studio is also available as a direct installer package for those not utilizing Apple School Manager.
Purchase for Android or Chromebook
For Android or Chromebook users: We offer a special EDU version of the app that includes all features without any in-app purchases. This version can be easily deployed directly to devices if your school utilizes a Mobile Device Management (MDM) system.
Buy Chrome School Site License
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This license is for use by up to 500 students. Should the number of students exceed 500, an additional license must be obtained for each subsequent group of up to 500 students.
Purchase for Windows
For Windows users: The Windows version of Stop Motion Studio is available as a direct installer package. It includes all features and no in-app purchases. It can also be deployed directly to devices if your school has a device management system installed.
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We are currently offering a 50% discount for educational institutions when you purchase 21 or more licenses. Simply enter the number of licenses and remember to use the promo code WIN50 to apply the discount.
Windows School Site License
We also offer a school site license for up to 500 students. If your student count exceeds 500, an additional license must be obtained for each subsequent group of up to 500 students.
Buy Windows School Site License
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For more information on bulk purchase discounts or any other inquiries, please contact us.