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What is Claymation? Check out the [|Wikipedia] answer.

Claymation is an effective tool to use in the classroom because it actively engages students to become higher-level thinkers through the use of technology. Students are directed throughout an activity which allows them to collaborate, communicate, create, analyze, evaluate, process, compare, and solve problems with other students. Their goal is to create and design a story that is brought to life through the cooperative efforts of each group member. Here's a recent [|article] which promotes clay animation as a technology that can work across many curriculum areas.

It's important to look back at the [|history] of clay animation and see how it began. Some of the best know clay works include the Gumby series which was created by Art Clokey, and the [|California Raisins] advertisements which were produced by the Will Vinton studio. In 1955, [|Clokey Productions] created a short movie called [|Gumbasia], which showed moving and expanding lumps of clay. Gumby first appeared on the Howdy Doody show in 1956 and began his own series in 1957.Clay animation has been used in many short films including Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run, [|The Nightmare Before Christmas], and [|James and the Giant Peach].