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Level : Form 2
Time : 1 hour
Aims : To make use of students’ creativity to create a parody superhero and use their imaginations to create backgrounds for the superheroes.
Technical Requirements : A computer for each group of students (ranging from 1-4 depending on size of class as well as computer lab) with an active internet connection and photo-editing software, such as MS Paint or Adobe Photoshop. MS Powerpoint is optional for presentation purposes.
Preparation : Have some images of animals and superheroes on standby, which can be found by googling any animal and any superhero and selecting suitable images (suitable meaning full body images which show the entire superhero, not just faces)
Optional to prepare a parodied superhero complete with background story.
Procedure :
1. Ask students to name their favourite superheroes, either from movies, or comics.
2. Ask students how those superheroes got their powers.
3. Show them pictures of animals and superheroes.
4. Ask them what would happen/how they would look like if the superheroes were animals instead. (Optional : present parodied superhero, complete with background story).
5. Get students to work in groups or individually, depending on circumstance and teacher’s discretion.
6. Get students to google images of animals as well as their favourite superheroes, or use the images that have been prepared to make their own superhero parody by using photo-editing software such as MS Paint or Adobe Photoshop.
7. Get students to present their finished product and create a background story for the superhero; how they got their powers, and how they fight crime.
Follow-up :
Get students to create supervillains for their superheroes at home. Preferably the supervillains should be the natural enemies of the animals which they used for the superheroes.
3 comments:
I know of someone (not I) who conducted a similar lesson in class, and I think it worked because the students liked doing something different and creative. I think this lesson would most probably work (and I'm not being biased, I've just seen something like it work).
A suitable activity for form 2 students. Good
LP 9/10, Presentation 5/5
TQ for making the effort commenting your friends' work.
Superheroes eh? I say its neat :) I believe each person has their favoured/preferred hero from their childhood, applying common interest in pursuing knowledge should be nice.
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