Summary: Join the National Children’s Museum in a global partnership using the arts, writing and journalism to create an animated public service announcement or call to action in one of six areas of engagement: the environment, health and well-being, play, the arts, civic engagement, and global neighborhood.
Description: Join the National Children’s Museum in a global partnership using the arts, writing and journalism to create an animated public service announcement or call to action in one of six areas of engagement: the environment, health and well-being, play, the arts, civic engagement, and global neighborhood.
Facilitators and students in each classroom will communicate online to:
--brainstorm around the common themes to determine the framework for the messaging the participants will develop
--inventory the creative assets and core strengths each classroom brings to the project
-- align resource availability with task items by classroom to ensure participatory balance of the project
Through first person narratives, photographs, drawings, sound recordings, and other media exchanged through snail mail, e-mail, and file transfer protocol (ftp) classrooms will share ideas and animation components. Layers, sets, backgrounds, and other elements contributing to a finished animation product will be exchanged openly as part of the collaborative process.
- Facilitator(s): Skye_Hallman
- Country: United States
- Facilitator(s): Mark_Wright
- Country: United States
- Languages: English
- Student Age Level: 5-11, 12-14
- Contributions: Students engage in collaborative project-based learning to make a difference in their communities and to reach the people around the world about issues of global significance.
- Outcomes: A primary outcome of Action! Animating Voices for Change is a completed animation that appears in the iEARN Collaboration Centre and on the National Children’s Museum website. The animation is suitable for public screenings and entry into film festivals and competitions. Other possible uses include the distribution of public service announcements, a call to action, or other messaging through available channels. All animation products will use one of the following types: stop motion, traditional and mixed-media using professional quality equipment.
- Related Links:
National Children's Museum, USA