{"id":3296,"date":"2017-03-30T11:06:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T15:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2017-05-11T11:33:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T15:33:51","slug":"5th-grade-midwest-region-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=3296","title":{"rendered":"5th Grade Midwest Region Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?attachment_id=3297\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3297\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/midwest-300x163.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/midwest-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/midwest.png 594w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Fifth graders at Trevvett Elementary have been learning about the regions of the United States this year, and they are currently focusing on the Midwest Region. Today students in Ms. Adamonis&#8217; class created comics about the Midwest using <a href=\"http:\/\/storyboardthat.com\">StoryboardThat<\/a>. First, we spent a few minutes researching the Midwest (SOL5.9). I encouraged them to look for interesting facts that their classmates may not already know. Some key words to use in search engines are: <em>midwest + interesting facts, fun facts, interesting places, landmarks, trivia, etc.<\/em> We also discussed how to double check their facts and evaluate the reliability of websites, since we found some &#8220;facts&#8221; that weren&#8217;t true (like roller skates weren&#8217;t actually invented in the midwest as <a href=\"http:\/\/themidwest.weebly.com\/fun-facts.html\">this site<\/a> claimed). Next, the students chose three of the most interesting facts to illustrate in their comic. We went to StoryboardThat and created a new comic with three panels (one for each fact). I explained that they should create their comic like a storyboard for a tv show or a documentary.  The students chose different backgrounds and characters and customized them using the blue &#8220;Edit&#8221; button. Then they added speech bubbles (textables) and typed the facts they discovered in their research. Finally, we took screenshots of our comics and uploaded them to <a href=\"http:\/\/comemories.com\">CoMemories<\/a>. We have been using Schoology albums to share our work, but we found that comics do not display large enough in this format, so that&#8217;s why we chose CoMemories instead. You can see all their midwest comics <a href=\"http:\/\/comemories.com\/154437\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifth graders at Trevvett Elementary have been learning about the regions of the United States this year, and they are currently focusing on the Midwest Region. Today students in Ms. Adamonis&#8217; class created comics about the Midwest using StoryboardThat. First, we spent a few minutes researching the Midwest (SOL5.9). I encouraged them to look for&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=3296\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,13],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-3296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5th","category-languagearts","category-socialstudies","tag-webtools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3301,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions\/3301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}