What if you had animal parts!?

Thanks to Scholastic, author Sandra Markle will be visiting the 2nd & 3rd graders at my school. While she has written over 200 books, her What if you had animal parts!? series is a favorite of my students. To prepare for Sandra's visit, I'm doing a fun lesson where students use the Keynote app to add animal parts to themselves.

Here are the steps to my lesson:

1) Step 1: I start the lesson by reading these books . . .

2) Step 2: Then I asked the question . . . 

3) Step 3: I took photos of each student with a plain background and airdropped my keynote project to the student's iPads.

4) Step 4: Students used Instant Alpha to take away the background of their picture.

5) Step 5: Students added their picture to these colored slides below . . . 

6) Step 6: I provided these slides with animal parts.

7) Step 7: Students added animal parts to their picture.  Here's the end result!  

On a final note, there are some tricks to creating the isolated animal parts.  I'm happy to share my project with you (just email me at jill.merkle@yahoo.com) but if you'd like to create your own animal parts, here's a screencast showing the steps: