First graders in Ms. Middleton’s class have been studying the Spring (SOL 1.7), and she wanted them to learn how to use Comic Life. So today we made spring comic books. I gave them a template to use which you can download by clicking here. I showed them how to change the style of the title, and we discussed what needed to go into each panel. We talked about what kinds of pictures they could search for to show what plants, animals, and people do in the spring. I put a word bank on the board (types of flowers, color words, baby animals, spring activities, etc). Then the students did Google image searches for their pictures and dragged them into the panels. I showed them how to change the style of the pictures to make them more comic-like. Then they typed simple sentences in the speech bubbles to tell about their pictures. I also wanted them to know about another way to get pictures into Comic Life by using the built-in camera, so they took pictures of themselves and put those in the last panel. I combined all their comics together into one PDF document and uploaded it to FlipSnack. You can see the final comic book by clicking here.
