3rd Grade Eaters Comics
Third graders at Laburnum Elementary have been studying predator-prey relationships and identifying carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores (SOL3.5). So today they created animal trading cards using Comic Life. First we opened Comic Life and I showed them how to drag in 4 boxes and resize them so they were all the same. Next we got on the Internet and I instructed them to do a Google Image search for 3 animals: a carnivore, a herbivore, and an omnivore. They were allowed to choose whatever animal they wanted as long as they were able to identify it. They dragged the images into the Comic Life panels and added text boxes and speech bubbles to provide information about what the animal eats. If they didn’t know, they could do some quick Internet research to find out. Finally, the students took their photo using the built in webcam feature of Comic Life, and put that in the last panel. They identified themselves as carnivores, omnivores, or herbivores and wrote what they eat. You can see a student sample by clicking on the picture.