Transformation

Transforming Ideas into Animated Stories

By Megan Henry, posted on Nov 6, 2025

Whether itʼs at the elementary, middle, or high-school level, making stop-motion animation movies with students always feels like storytelling magic. When I accepted a position teaching summer school in 2021, stop-motion felt like a natural fit for a Career & Technical Education (CTE) course titled Arts & A/V. I hadn’t taught an audio-visual film production class before but had made stop-motion movies with fifth graders when I worked at an elementary school, and I figured this media would allow my eighth-grade summer school students the freedom to be as artsy or as techy as they wanted.

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