Create a range of props to use to portray the water cycle, keeping in mind the practicality of working with these props during the animation process. This will help them to keep track of their animation once they get started. Get the children to create a storyboard, either in groups or as a class, representing the shots which they will need to portray the water cycle. How will they portray the water droplet joining closely with others to form rivers and streams, or moving further away from other droplets during evaporation? If the latter then they must think what the water droplet will look like in its different forms e.g. Some might prefer a general overview of the water cycle, whilst others might prefer to follow an individual water droplet on its journey. Get the children to think carefully about how they might portray the water cycle. Review the main processes involved and the order they occur in. Discuss the water cycle with the class. This project can be done in groups or as a class. With the magic of animation they can follow an individual drop of water on its continuous journey and have lots of fun showing how it falls as rain or snow, infiltrates the ground then joins lots of other water drops in rivers, lakes and the sea before rising back into the sky via evaporation and transpiration. Stop motion animation is a great way for younger students to get to know the Water Cycle. Tip! You may want to make this into a wider reaching project about rivers, covering not only their formation but a socio-economic study of how they are used and how the different features of a river can affect the people living along its banks and further afield Here is a diagram showing v-shaped valley formation which could be used as part of the animation. Watch the animation and review what has been learnt. When all the animations are finished, export them as movies files and join them together in an application like iMovie to make one big project. This will probably take more than one lesson so make sure that you have a safe place to store the sets and props when not in use : ) Get the children to animate their chosen river processes. The use of some similar elements in each individual animation will really help join them all together at the end of the project. Get the children to create a range of props to use for their animation. At this stage also, the groups must work together to decide how they are going to ensure their separate animations will run seamlessly into each other once they are all put together. How are they going to portray the physical processes involved in the formation of their particular river feature? This is the trickiest part of the project and the students will really have to think deeply about the subject matter to come up with the right solution. Each group must plan the ‘story’ for their animation and create a storyboard representing the shots which have been planned. Divide the class into groups and let each group decide which river feature they are going to portray in their individual animations along with the processes involved in its formation. 
These will include v-shaped valleys, interlocking spurs, waterfalls and gorges closer to the river’s source, and meanders, ox box lakes, floodplains, levees and deltas which are found closer to the river’s mouth. As a class, discuss the features which may be found along the river.Finally the individual animations can be put together to produce the whole story of the river. Working as a class they can research the processes leading to the different river formations, then in groups create separate animations of each of the main processes. The students create a stop motion animation explaining the different features which can occur along the course of a river. So let’s look at a couple of ways you can use Smoovie to really help your students get to grips with geography:
From plate tectonics to glaciation there are many processes for the student to master, and being able to visualise them with animation makes it so much easier. Geography lends itself brilliantly to the use of stop motion animation.
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