{"id":4116,"date":"2019-02-07T11:18:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T15:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=4116"},"modified":"2021-09-24T11:34:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T15:34:56","slug":"3rd-mali-matter-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=4116","title":{"rendered":"3rd Mali Matter Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?attachment_id=4117\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4117\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/3rdMaliMatter-300x142.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"142\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/3rdMaliMatter-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/3rdMaliMatter-1024x484.png 1024w, https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/3rdMaliMatter.png 1414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Third graders at Varina Elementary have been learning about the Empire of Mali in Social Studies (SOL3.4) and matter in Science (SOL3.3). So today students in Ms. Goode&#8217;s and Ms. Lanham&#8217;s classes created Mali Matter comics.  First we reviewed different aspects of the Mali Empire: griots, camels, salt, gold, Timbuktu, the Niger River, etc. and categorized them as solids, liquids, or gasses. Since we didn&#8217;t identify too many gasses or liquids, the students had to be creative (and they were!). Now that they had some ideas for their comics, we went to <a href=\"http:\/\/storyboardthat.com\">StoryboardThat<\/a>, which is an online tool for making comics. We made a 3-panel comic, and in each panel the students had to provide an example of a solid, liquid, or gas from the Mali Empire. In order to find the most accurate illustrations, we looked at online images of the Mali landscape and the clothing people wore there a long time ago. Then we looked in StoryboardThat for Scenes and Characters that were similar. Students also added speech bubbles to explain the types of matter in their comic. You can see some student samples <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/u\/1\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vQF5C3B06v0q-eVYCckxS7sWbsdg7HHwQTm1NONRHUa3f2WoZ2cqqJu5N2IB000yz_OYOVf6KIyZbmq\/pub\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third graders at Varina Elementary have been learning about the Empire of Mali in Social Studies (SOL3.4) and matter in Science (SOL3.3). So today students in Ms. Goode&#8217;s and Ms. Lanham&#8217;s classes created Mali Matter comics. First we reviewed different aspects of the Mali Empire: griots, camels, salt, gold, Timbuktu, the Niger River, etc. and&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=4116\">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":[5,12,13],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-4116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3rd","category-science","category-socialstudies","tag-comic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116","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=4116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4118,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions\/4118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}