Character Study with Shadow Puppet

Ms. McDaniel's class has been studying character in their Language Arts class, and she allowed students to share their understandings of character by creating multimodal videos with Shadow Puppet.  The class has been reading Kate DiCamillo's Because of Winn Dixie, and they created some anchor charts about different characters in the book, with columns for character names, representative items of that character, and adjectives they would use to describe the character.  Ms. Moore came and did a little research lesson on how to use some of our research tools to find photos to represent a given character.  Students then used Shadow Puppet EDU to explain key points about each character.  After this initial exploration, the class worked on creating a rubric for evaluating their own work when creating a Shadow Puppet Character study.  The learning continues...