The ACTF Animation Teacher's Kit contains lessons and interactive worksheets for teaching the principles and history of animation from years 3-10 using ACTF videos, kits and online resources. It features production tutorials on all aspects of animation and it links to already existing lessons in the Learning Centre. The kit is a valuable and relevant resource for teaching media studies and visual literacy and for developing multiliteracy skills in students, as well as a resource that can be used by students to learn the techniques of animation.

Resources
• L'il Elvis and the Truckstoppers

• L'il Elvis Animation Guide detailing the way the series was made. Topics covered include writing story ideas, designing characters, storyboards, casting, dialogue recording, animation, scanning and painting and camera work.

• Scripts of episodes from the Li’l Elvis TV series. Scripts are offered in collections of episodes corresponding to the videos.

• Lift Off

• Kaboodle and teacher’s notes

• Kahootz

• Noah & Saskia

Details in the Education Catalogue

Order the videos

Other resources

A website that teaches children how to create cartoons www.cartoonster.com

Teaching Resources in the Kit