Elementary Technology

The book One by Kathryn Otoshi delivers a great message to kids about standing up for yourself.  It is an easy book to read aloud to your class but holds deep meaning and serves as a kickoff for meaningful discussions.  There is also a YouTube video that has students acting out the story while Kathryn Otoshi reads the book. I took these two media and added a software program called Comic Life by Plasq to create a lesson in the computer lab. After students have read the story in their homeroom, they will watch the video in the computer lab. Then they will work in pairs to capture what each color might be thinking, feeling or saying.

They will do this by typing in speech bubbles surrounding the dots of color as illustrated in the image.  You can see the website that students have access to here: https://sites.google.com/a/ncps-k12.org/south-school-diversity/