In the fall of 2021 during
my Pre-Practicum teaching at Williams Middle School I created and taught a
lesson to a group of 6th grade students
about the history of optical toys, the creation of the ‘thaumatrope’ and how
these precursor devices eventually led to the medium of animation.
Williams Middle School
A
thaumatrope is a disk with a different picture on each side and is attached to
two pieces of string. When the strings are twirled quickly between the
fingers the two pictures appear to blend into one due to the optical phenomenon
“persistence of vision”. Two classes
constructed the visually engaging and properly functioning thaumatropes you see
below.
Class 1
Class 2
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