WEATHER NEWS
The children were super keen to use the Explain Everything app to create a short animation of themselves as TV Weather Reporters. They were itching to see what they could do with this app to make their weather shows come to life!
Every student first chose a black and white photo background as the backdrop to his/her “onscreen” weather report. The photo backgrounds that they each selected inspired the scripts that they wrote, to make their viewers understand the kind of weather they were highlighting in the news. The children then drew cartoon versions of themselves as reporters (microphones in hand, no less!), and made their cartoon selves come alive right before their very eyes with the help of the animation tool!
The final step was for the kids to record their read-alouds of their weather predictions. I can honestly say that no one was more motivated to practise reading with expression and confidence than the kids!