Introduction to Flash Animation CS5

Career and Tech Ed

Scott Waldman - Middle School Technology Teacher

These tutorials and lesson plans were devloped by myself and have been developed from many successful years of teaching Flash to strudents as young as grade 4, high school age, adults on the college level and inservice teachers.

For questions or concerns regarding these tutorials email me at swaldman2@schools.nyc.gov

Teaching “Flash Intro” to beginning animators for 10 years I have developed some techniques and projects that develop essential Flash skills while providing a solid foundation for participants to continue working with Flash long after my class or professional development. The typical introductory training is anywhere between 6 to15 hours and my typical teaching assignment, with middle school students, is twice a week for 40 minutes for an academic year.

Follow the sequnce of video tutorials, lesson plans and samples below for a solid Flash foundation.

Flash Introduction video instruction

Tools lesson plan. (Microsoft Word)

Tools lesson plan. (Adobe PDF)

Tools video instruction part one

Tools video instruction part two

Cookies and Layers video instruction (to teach layers)

Custom Gradients video instruction

Tools Test Sample (Microsoft Word)

Tools Test Sample (Adobe PDF)

Animation lesson plan (Microsoft Word)

Animation lesson plan (Adobe PDF)