Each year, our 6th grade Reading/Language Arts teachers have their students write and present poetry in a “Winter Wonder Slam” event. This year, they wanted to give their learners a different, more creative outlet in which to bring visual elements to their poems. Together, we landed on Keynote as a great tool to draw, build, and animate!
I visited classrooms to co-teach during this project, showing students how to create settings and add shapes to visualize figurative language or build their concrete poems. Then, we walked through how to animate individual or grouped items and text. With these skills and ideas in mind, students then began to create! https://youtu.be/R3NpWtm714o
Students had time in class over three days to write and then build their Keynote creation. Then, the Winter Wonder Slam began! Some of their final products were so amazingly unique and creative, and their fellow 6th graders were so engaged during their readings.
Keynote was the perfect tool to bring these poems to life! #weareLCP
January 15, 2025
Such fun and outstanding student examples of animating poetry! Thanks for sharing these. Your tutorial is also very helpful. What a creative learning project! The visuals and animation really make the student authors think about the writing and poetry process.
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