eMotional Robots

🎨DRAW 📱ANIMATE 💬 COMMUNICATE feelings through an eMotion Robot.

This course takes you step by step through creating an expressive robot on paper and a flip book animation on your device to creatively communicate emotions through art using the animated glow technique. It provides everything YOU NEED to TEACH YOUR YOUNG STUDENTS.

1. Students will study Facial Expressions from the work of Rembrandt and practice drawing faces that express different emotions.
2. Student will Animate a Symbol that reflects the emotion they choose in a flip book style using large, medium, and small.
3. Student will practice Communicating Feelings with their voice when they capture the animated glow effect with video and audio.

I'm excited to announce that my article about this engaging first grade lesson was published in the January/February issue of School Arts Magazine. In it I explain how my students learned to animate their expressive robot drawings with a glowing symbol. This transdigital technique combined physical art making and digital animation to help their robots show what they are feeling inside. They used their voice to put words to this eMotion as they recorded a short video. I created a mini-course that takes you step by step through the process using the DoInk app, iPad, and inspiration from Rembrandt. All the resources are included.

The edtech tools we used to make this project successful included iPads loaded with the Do Ink Animation and Drawing App. This app plays the animated symbol in an endless loop. We can customize it's placement, colors, and backgrounds to maximize the illusion that the robot is glowing with symbolic eMotion. I include step by step directions in the mini-course. My first graders were animating in no time. The iPad stand by Dewey (bit.ly/PETERstand) holds the iPad still over the subject as we record the transdigital art experience using the iPad's built in camera/video recording app.

Help your robot's feelings show through with

🤖 Symbol

🤖 Flip book style animation

🤖 Expressive robot drawings

🤖 Inspired by Rembrandt's sketches

This lesson is inspired by PETER O'METER, a robot who becomes emotional when his buttons are pushed. Explore all the resources created for this augmented reality SEL children's book here including a FREE 50+ page STEAM + SEL packet of activities.