4th Grade Civil War Comics
The Civil War is a new SOL for the 4th grade this year so many teachers are looking for good ideas. One idea to help your students remember the major events in the Civil War is to create comics like this class did at Holladay Elementary. I gave them a template to use which you can download by clicking here. I also gave them a huge (31 MB) folder of pictures to use which you can download by clicking here. The students dragged the pictures they wanted into the boxes on the template, added their own text boxes and speech bubbles to explain the event, and then changed the style of the pictures and text to make it look interesting. You can take a look at some student samples displayed in a cool Prezi by clicking here. One of the neat things about sharing your students’ work in a Prezi is that you can embed it in a website like in the example. Let me know if you’d like to learn more about Prezi.