I was also really excited (like, probably more than my students haha) about making this music video about the planets - don't worry it had educational value! ;) But I was also really worried about the management nightmare it could potentially be in a class of 28 students being crazy and running around the room and treating it like "free time." I wanted to incorporate as many students as possible and I needed everyone to be doing something productive or madness would ensue. I came up with the idea of having half of the class choreograph and learn a dance while the other half designed and created a stop-motion of the planets. It ended up working out pretty well! It was sometimes a little hard for me to let the students come up with their own ideas because I had so many of my own, but I wanted them to feel like they contributed, so I tried to keep quiet and they came up with some REALLY creative stuff! I was very impressed. 

Unfortunately I can't post the whole video on here because my students are in it and I can't legally do that - but I made a short cut of just the stop-motion segments that I wanted to share. 

I've only done stop-motion once before and I had someone else who was far more experienced telling me exactly what to do, so I wasn't super confident on how to do it, but the end product came out decent - all things considered. I'm excited to try it again now that I know a lot more about what to do! Also, if I had a dollar for every time I told a student, "Please don't bump the table, it will mess up the shot."...I wouldn't be complaining about my teacher salary anymore ;) hahaha.