iStop

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** iSTOPMOTION ** ** CLAY-MATION **
 * 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) ** Create a DVD of your movie. **
 * 12) ** Upload your movie onto your wikispace. **
 * 13) ** You will receive MYP grades and an academic grade for this assignment. **


 * INVESTIGATE: **
 * 1. Take the test on [|Skyward] **.
 * 2. Why are you using the Design Cycle for this assignment? so that our claymation looks cool and is cool **
 * 4. How will the Design Cycle help you with this assignment? it will help me do a better job **
 * 5. Answer the Design Brief questions below: **
 * - What materials do you have for this assignment? the computer, play-dough, and cardboard for backgrounds **
 * - What software is required for you to use for this assignment? iMovie, iDVD, iStop, and GarageBand **
 * - How will you earn an academic grade for this assignment? by doing the assignment and following the requirements **
 * - How will you earn your MYP grades for this assignment? by grading myself **
 * - How can my choices change the lives of others positively and negatively? they can make people feel bad or feel good **
 * - How can my choices change my life positively and negatively? it can make me happier or it can make me kill myself **
 * - Why is it important to make positive choices in your life? so that i get a good job **
 * - Why is it important to our country that you make positive choices? so that i dont put us into even more debt **

[|story board.pdf]
 * 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: **
 * 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 10 days: (You need to explain who is going to do what, and how you will get this project done by November 22.) im by myself so this will be hard the only reason im by myself is that i have no friends in this class. im dead serious (i will be filming in between making things) **
 * ** Day 1: work on storyboard and brainstorming chart **
 * ** Day 2: start buliding my clay people and doing my backgrounds **
 * ** Day 3: I will continue to build my clay people and make my backgrounds **
 * ** Day 4: finish 1 of the 3 backgrounds **
 * ** Day 5: finish 1 of the 2 people **
 * ** Day 6: work on people and backgrounds **
 * ** Day 7: finish background number 2 and 3 work on last 2 people **
 * ** Day 8: finish last 2 people **
 * ** Day 9: film every thing and post **
 * ** Day 10 (November 22): Movie needs to be on your wiki and all the question on your wikispace answered. **


 * 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: **
 * ** Why did you change your plan? I didnt have enough time to do everything **
 * ** Why did you change your story board? because I didn't have enough time and the clay people were not cooperating. **
 * 12. How could you improve your movie? I could have made it have more detailed because it was kinda boring this time **
 * 13. Does your movie meet all of the requirements? all except of the sounds **
 * 14. Share your movie with at least one friend. What did she like about your movie? my sister thought it was funny. **
 * 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.) If you do things you shouldn't be doing then bad things will happen to you, if you do what you should be doing then you will have free time. **


 * 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"?. more or less Explain your answer: it was hard to do it by myself but I did it. **
 * 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) ** You created a DVD: 10 **
 * 13) ** TOTAL = 160 POINTS **