2nd Grade Ancient China Comics
Second graders in Ms. Street’s class at Laburnum Elementary have been learning about ancient China (SOL2.1), and today they created a comic book about the famous places and inventions of this incredible civilization. They started with a blank Comic Life document. I showed them how to add a fancy title and change the style, then they dragged over six panels. I gave them a folder of pictures to use that you can download by clicking here. They added 5 pictures of their choice and then took pictures of themselves for the 6th panel. I showed them how to change the style of the photos to make them look more comic-like. Finally we added speech bubbles, and the students typed in sentences to give facts about each picture. I combined all their comics together into one comic book and published online here. If you are studying ancient China, there are lots of great resources online. You can watch a video about how they invented gunpowder here. You can take a virtual tour of the Great Wall and see a panoramic view of it here. I also made a Google map here where you can zoom down and see part of the Great Wall.