Fifth graders in Ms. Bailey’s class at Davis Elementary have been learning about plot development (SOL5.5c) as they read the exciting book, Escaping the Giant Wave by Peg Kehret. Today I showed them how to create a Google slideshow highlighting important events in the plot of the story. We used StoryboardThat to illustrate each scene. StoryboardThat includes a variety of backgrounds and characters that can be customized. The students searched for special items they wanted to add to their pictures, like fire and waves. Then we took screenshots of the pictures and imported them into our Google slideshow. Next we added text boxes to each slide identifying the parts of the “plot mountain”: introduction/problem, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. I showed them how to change the background color of the slides and add transitions. Finally we published the links to Google classroom where students could view each others’ slideshows and discuss similarities and differences. The featured image is from Sarah’s slideshow, but you can see them all here.
