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Pivot Stickfigure Animator create animated cartoons Our Rating: 4.5 stars (Very Good!) Pivot Stickfigure Animator is a unique software, that allows you to create stick figure animations easily and without any artistic skills. You can move the sections of the sick figure and easily create a chain of animation frames that can be previewed as you go. You can use more than one stick-figure in the animation, and even create your own stick figures using an easy to use visual editor that lets you assemble objects out of lines and circles. In addition, you can optionally set animation size, speed and more. The result can be saved as animated GIF file.

19/4/09 - "Photorealistic zoo". Make your own new animals, play animal games and puzzles. Learn about animals. Build animal habitats. Superb site for habitats or as a writing stimulus. The site even offers lesson plans.

30/9/08 - Ignore the adverts offering paid-for service; there is enough free content on this site to keep you interested. Well worth a look, particularly for animated GIFs.

30/12/07 - "Welcome to the largest virtual zoo in the world with hundreds of your favourite animals. We have more animal pictures and animal facts than you can see in a day so come back often." Great for animal photos and factfiles.

Here are some flash animations produced for my own teaching and free for you to download and use as you wish.

17/11/07 - 1000s of GIFs on this site

26/8/07 - "400,000+ Royalty Free Animations, 3D Clip Art, Backgrounds, PowerPoint Templates, and Video Clips". Not bad at all!

"Free animated gifs - 3D gif animations- free gifs - freestuff"

9/1/08 - filmeducation.org site. Stop motion and moving image animation.

Free animated gif, graphic animation, icon, and clipart - great stuff!

13/4/09 - Ronseal. Easily searchable GIFs site with many of interest for teachers or children.

Funny Bones 2.13 www.littlebitsmultimedia.com Have fun learning about the animal skeletal systems. 9 different skeletal systems in all, plus a fun and friendly tutorial and quizzes. Color coded bones ...children will quickly learn the similarities and patterns found in all vertebrate skeletal systems. Funny Bones 2 contains puzzles that will help you learn about the bones and skeletal systems of : * people * cats * horses * frogs * birds * dinosaurs * fish

23/4/08 - A fantastic, animated scale model showing relative sizes of planets and stars.

29/6/08 - "Freeware PowerPoint plug-in iSpring converts your PowerPoint presentation to an interactive Flash video with the click of a button. Not only is iSpring a great way to make your PowerPoint presentation more portable (not everyone has PowerPoint, after all), but an exported movie even preserves all of your slide transitions, animations, and hyperlinks."

31/5/08 - Fine as a starting point, with some good examples of animal Haikus.

Some resources look relevant for primary too.

Established in 2006, Curriculumbits.com offer free online access to a growing range of interactive multimedia elearning resources. The online resource library contains games, quizzes, animations and videos in a variety of subjects. Resources have been produced according to key stage 3 and 4 of the UK National Curriculum for students aged 11 to 16. All resources are produced by elearning multimedia specialists in collaboration with every day teaching staff as a direct solution to their classroom requirements.

Fab song and animation for months of the year

Although Susan no longer updates this site, the content is of high quality and adds fun to your IWB resources. You can easily add the files to your PowerPoint, Flipchart and Smart documents.

28/11/07 - although not obscene, not for children.

15/8/07 - Almost clean, bizarre story with lots of cow-based puns!