Teachers, save “Animate an Acrostic Animal Poem” to assign it to your class.

CLICK THE SLOTH TO VIEW VIDEOS FOR EACH STEP OF THIS ACTIVITY NOTE: As you are working on this activity, if you run out of time to finish, click the Draft button to save it so you don't lose all of your hard work! SETTING UP YOUR ANIMATION 1. Tap 2. Tap the tool and type your poem. 3. Resize the text box so each line of your poem fits on one line and the first letters of each line spell your topic going down. 4. Tap the and then tap to add your animal picture to Seesaw. 5. Use the , , and tools to illustrate the FIRST line of your poem. Put your animal where it belongs in the picture! 6. Tap the button at the right of the screen. 7. Tap the at the bottom of page 1 and tap DUPLICATE PAGE to create page 2. 8. On page 2, illustrate the SECOND line of your poem. Move your animal using the tool if needed. 9. Tap the at the bottom of page 2 and tap DUPLICATE PAGE to create page 3. 10. Keep creating new pages and illustrating each line of your poem until you are done. You will have one page for each line of your poem. (For your animation to work, you can't go back and make changes to previous pages!) RECORDING YOUR ANIMATED POEM: 1. Tap on Page 1 of your pages on the right side of the screen. 2. Tap the to record your poem. Read line one, then tap on Page 2 and read line 2, then tap on Page 3 and read line 3. Continue tapping on each page and reading each line until you finish reading the whole poem. 3. Tap when you have recorded all lines and slides in your poem. 4. A NEW PAGE 1 with your recording will appear. You can click the arrow on page 1 to watch and listen to your recording. 5. If you want to redo your recording, tap and tap RE-RECORD to erase your previous recording. Then tap again to record again. 6. When you are completely finished, tap to add your poem to your Seesaw journal and let your teacher know you are done.