David Finkle is a fifteen-year-old who writes scripts and screen plays and draws cartoons. (AM)

Students learn to use the technique of film animation to give their drawings the additional dimension of time. (RK)

The zoetrope, ancestor of the motion picture, is a spinning cylinder in which a strip of drawings take on movement. This article provides instructions for building this device and outlines an animation project for third- through seventh-graders. (SJL)

Describes a sixth grade animated filmmaking project. Students researched tasks involved in filmmaking, developed a script, and worked on illustration and film production techniques. (AM)

Describes a simple process for making an animated film by moving sand patterns on a lighted surface. (SJL)

Described the creation of optical toys which students make and assemble themselves. (RK)

Climaxing a study of language arts, author's class made animated movies, second grade style. Involved were script writers, art directors, set designers and wardrobe ladies. (Author/CB)

Presents background and directions for an elementary-level activity combining art and language in which students study verbs and animation techniques. To understand how verbs suggest the passage of time, students visualize action sequences. (AM)

Describes an art project in which junior high students are producing a 16mm animated cartoon using stop-action filming of handmade plastic figures on a built-to-scale set. (SJL)

Establishes the case for animation in projects in the art program, organized for upper elementary through the senior high school level. Describes three simple introductory activities to help students understand the basic theory of animation. (Editor/RK)

This article gives instructions for a student art project in making an animated cartoon. The necessary equipment is described and planning, drawing, and filming phases are outlined. (SJL)

Describes a year-long, technically-oriented photography/film course developed by the authors for the Newton (Massachusetts) Public Schools. Lists some of the program's objectives, discusses problems of working with chemicals and providing darkroom space, and emphasizes the program's motivational effects. (SJL)

A summer computer graphics workshop held at the University of Oregon for high school and college students, teachers, and adults is described. Participants learned to write programs in BASIC and to work with graphic input devices. Concepts of animation were introduced. Students made presentations of their graphics. (RM)