🗓️ Before Class: Teacher Prep
- Gather/set out: Your Timeline Edit project (or a new short clip), Video editor with keyframe/animation controls (CapCut, Premiere Rush, or Canva video).
- If today includes physical/hands-on work: make sure the classroom cameras are charged, working, and have a cleared SD card ready for photo uploads.
- Pull up today's slide deck (see 🖥️ Slide Deck below) so it's ready to project.
🧑🏫 Substitute Teacher Guide
A scripted, step-by-step runsheet for today's class -- hand this to anyone covering the room who doesn't know the daily routine.
- Day 1: 📋 Open Substitute Guide
- Day 2: 📋 Open Substitute Guide
🎯 Essential Question
- Your video timeline edit already moved clips through time -- what happens when a single object moves, fades, or grows within one clip instead?
📈 Learning Objectives
By the end of this lesson (2 Days), students will be able to:
- Explain what a keyframe is and why animating any property needs at least two of them.
- Animate a text or graphic element's position, scale, or opacity over time using keyframes.
- Connect this technique to how professional motion graphics and video titles are actually built.
📐 Standards Alignment
CDOS (Career Development & Occupational Studies)
- CDOS 1 — Career Development -- students will be able to explain the range of career choices, and identify personal interests, skills, and aptitudes that relate to those choices.
- CDOS 2 — Integrated Learning -- students will demonstrate how academic knowledge and skills are applied in the workplace and other settings.
- CDOS 3b — Career Majors -- knowledge and skills required for success within a specific career pathway (here, Digital Design).
ACP (Adobe Certified Professional) Photoshop Exam Objectives
- ACP 2.1 — Create a document with the appropriate settings for web, print, and video.
🎓 Study this for the ACP exam: Domain 2: Project Setup and Interface
📚 Key Vocabulary
- Keyframe
- A saved value for a property (position, size, opacity) at a specific point in time -- two or more keyframes let the software calculate everything in between automatically.
- Easing
- Controlling whether motion between keyframes speeds up, slows down, or moves at a constant rate.
🧰 Materials & Tools
- Your Timeline Edit project (or a new short clip)
- Video editor with keyframe/animation controls (CapCut, Premiere Rush, or Canva video)
🧠 Do Now (Warm-Up)
Think of any animated logo or title you've seen online. What actually moved -- position, size, opacity, or some combination?
📋 Main Workshop / Lesson Sequence
This lesson spans 2 Days. Suggested pacing:
| Day | Focus | Plan |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | Learn & Try | Do Now (5 min, above). Mini-lesson (15 min): what a keyframe is, using the free companion book The Motion Path (Ch. 4.6) as a reference for the concept even though it's written for Premiere Pro specifically. Practice (20 min): animate one simple text element moving and fading in using at least 2 keyframes. |
| Day 2 | Apply & Export | Independent work (30 min): add a keyframed animation to a real title or graphic in your own video project. Export (10 min): export the finished clip. |
✅ Assessment & Exit Ticket
Finished clip assessed for a genuine, deliberate keyframed animation (not just a built-in template effect) applied to at least one element.
Exit Ticket: What property did you animate, and how many keyframes did it actually take to get the motion looking right?
📊 Pull up the anonymous Class Check-In for students to fill out before they go.
🧩 Differentiation & Accommodations
English Language Learners: provide translated or bilingual glossaries, visuals, and sentence frames; pair with a peer for meaningful participation. Students with IEPs: provide extended time, step-by-step checklists, and one-on-one or small-group support as specified in each student's plan. Attention-related needs: break the task into smaller steps, use visual timers, and minimize distractions. Students who finish early: extend the task by adding a second design variation, mentoring a classmate, or writing a short reflection connecting today's skill to a career pathway.