The Blob

What other random supplies from around the room could you use in your video? Clay Heroes (small group) Let’s make some movies! Help break students into groups, each with its own camera, computer, The HUE Book of Animation, googly eyes, clay bones and a 4 oz block of clay. Like before, groups should diversify their clay colors to prevent an army of red blobs. Groups have p. 26-27 in The HUE Book of Animation for reference as they create new adventures for Blob Man. Again, encourage students to take on a new role. Each film crew needs clay sculptors, software animators, camera operators and creative directors. What unique interactions can each team invent for Blob Man? Clean Up and Wrap Up (whole group discussion) Save the Clay Hero movies in Animation Studio, close out of computers and deconstruct the Blob Men, collecting the wiggly eyes and clay to use again next lesson. Then, gather together to debrief the day. Possible discussion questions: What different ideas did groups come up with? What great examples of realistic movement did you see? How did they do it? What other props would be fun to experiment with in future movies? Check for Understanding Why do some clay characters need…

Observers performed two tests on Everly, which included Piaget’s the conservation of number task and the conservation of mass task. When observers performed the conservation of mass task, they took a ball of model magic and broke it in half evenly. Then observers asked Everly if these two blobs of model magic were even, and Everly responded yes. After, observers took one of the blobs and proceeded to break the blob into tiny little pieces. Once completed, observers asked Everly if the original…

The Blob The cult classic 1958 film “The Blob” starring a young Steve McQueen, is not only interesting to watch, it also gives the viewer a number of insights into that era. The milieu in Post World War II America is the dominant sign in the film. The era is the signified and there are a number of signifiers. The film begins with the theme song “Beware of the Blob, it creeps and leaps…” and the viewer is made aware of the fascination for monsters that Americans had during that period. Spook…

rise of color films being the norm. The Blob has become after viewing it, my favorite early color film, it also stars Steve McQueen in debut role. I love how many famous actors come out horror films and apparently regardless of the era. After finally seeing this film, although I have been very aware of it for as long as remember, I enjoyed it immensely more than I thought I would. Which makes sense as I have a well-known fondness for B-Movies and Cult films, both of which The Blob is. I also…

Bob and the Blob Bob knew that he should not have mixed those chemicals together, but the resulting giant blob that ate up the school was not really his fault. How could he have known, that by mixing hydrochloric acid, potassium iodine, copper sulfate and some of the “secret” substance behind the teacher’s desk would have resulted in an omnivorous, gelatinous blob? However, he was blamed nevertheless. The chemistry class that Bob attended had few rules that had to be explained, as most were what…

The blob fish has always been dubbed "the world's most disgusting animal", but to me it's one of the most wonderful creatures ever tob grace the earth. The blob fish or in scientific terms, the "Psychrolutes marcidus"live in the deep waters around the coasts of Australia and Tasmania. They live in waters of 80 times the normal presure of sea level. Normally any creature at that depth would be crushed and die, but the blob fish has no bones. It's body is entirely made of strange gelatinous flesh…

They’re More than a Blob of Cells There are roughly 1.3 million abortions each year worldwide. Abortion is currently a huge debate in today's society, whether people are pro-life or pro-choice. When people make these decisions do they ever think about the unborn child? Abortion is a deliberate termination of an unborn fetus. People should think about all the brainpower and all the amazing things those children could have done. Instead, they were killed because the mother didn't want them or…

look at. Wall painting 901 specifically had many colorful vertical running up and down the wall. It also had a huge black, irregular blob in the center of the wall, overlapping the colorful bands in the background. Unlike the other wall paintings, this specific one stood out to me and made me wonder why the artist included the black blob over the…

On Saturday April 1, at 5:51 am, two unknown creature’s said to be from planet Blobia were found in Abby Heitman’s Donut Shop in New York City, New York. Abby had gotten up early the morning of April 1 to go make donuts for her store in New York City. When she unlocked the door and went into the kitchen, she saw two fat and slimy blobs lying on the floor covered in donut frosting. They had apparently eaten all of the supplies needed to make the donuts. After Abby had screamed from seeing…

Edward Bloor, Paul and Erik Fisher are rivaling brothers who don’t get along very well. In the book, Paul and Erik have diverse personalities so they are opposite geometric characters. Erik Fisher is very bold, he stands out on the football field and in the neighborhood. Erik is also very popular and cool, because of these characteristics Erik is defined as the shape is “pow”. On the other hand, Paul Fisher is very abstract and much less than his older brother Erik. So he is the beginning of a…