Third graders at Laburnum Elementary have been learning how to count money and make change (SOL3.8), so today students in Ms. Ford’s class created comics about buying things and getting change back. I posted a link to StoryboardThat on Google classroom, and when students opened the website we clicked “Create a Storyboard.” First we looked at the background Scenes and discussed possible places where money is exchanged: grocery store, restaurant, shopping mall, movie theater, school, etc. I explained that their comic would have 3 frames: the first one would be about how much the item costs, the second one would be about how much money the character paid, and in the last frame, a character would ask a question for the students to solve, like, “How much change would I get back?” For the characters, I demonstrated how to customize their colors, costumes, and expressions. I also showed the students how to use the Search box to find additional props, like money and objects to buy. The last step in making the comic was to add the speech bubbles and type complete sentences in each frame about the money story problem. When they were finished, the students took screenshots of their comics and uploaded them to Google classroom for their classmates to solve. You can see some examples here.

Third graders at Laburnum Elementary have been learning how to count money and make change (SOL3.8), so today students in Ms. Ford’s class created comics about buying things and getting change back. I posted a link to StoryboardThat on Google classroom, and when students opened the website we clicked “Create a Storyboard.” First we looked at the background Scenes and discussed possible places where money is exchanged: grocery store, restaurant, shopping mall, movie theater, school, etc. I explained that their comic would have 3 frames: the first one would be about how much the item costs, the second one would be about how much money the character paid, and in the last frame, a character would ask a question for the students to solve, like, “How much change would I get back?” For the characters, I demonstrated how to customize their colors, costumes, and expressions. I also showed the students how to use the Search box to find additional props, like money and objects to buy. The last step in making the comic was to add the speech bubbles and type complete sentences in each frame about the money story problem. When they were finished, the students took screenshots of their comics and uploaded them to Google classroom for their classmates to solve. You can see some examples here.