The study of integrating animation curriculum into exhibits in primary school

How can animation curriculum be successfully integrated into exhibits in primary school? In this study, we seek the position of animation education on multimedia learning, introduce the exhibit mode of animation curriculum and summarize our program of the research. There were K3 students who were never given animation lessons participating in the experiment. We adopted pre-experimental design as our research method. The participants needed to complete pre-test and post-test. Besides, we observed participants´ learning behavior by the daily records, also. In the exhibit model of animation curriculum, we designed three interactive stalls regarding stop-motion animations. The first stall introduced “Bird in the cage”. The students are were able to use easy props to experience persistence of vision. The first stall, “Bird in the Cage”, allowed the young students to experience the phenomenon of persistence of vision with easy props. The second stall is the applications on persistence of vision. It included two subjects, flip books and a large-sized work of persistence of vision and cultivates further students´ concepts on persistence of vision, which helped cultivate students´ concepts on persistence of vision further. The last stall enabled participants to create animations by on their own. We evaluated the students´ learning behavior by two parts. First, we designed an achievement test to know what they have learned about animation. The other, we would like to realize participants´ learning behavior in depth, so we observed everyone on the spot in the period of exhibit days. By comparing with the pre-test and the post-test, we found participants have made a great progress on animation concepts. We successfully design a potential animating curriculum in our exhibit. Our animation exhibit and curriculum could be a novel model on animation learning.