What’s going on?

This is a funny picture story that I have come accross a few times on the internet. I used Microsoft Paint to cover up the subject in each image, showed the series to my students and asked them to guess what was going on.

Microsoft paint is a free and simple program that has been included free with virtually all versions of Microsoft Windows since its first release. To add obscuring blobs to pictures:

1. First of all, you will need to duplicate an image so that you can deface one and keep the original intact. To do this, right click on a saved image in your My pictures folder and left click on Copy.
2. Then paste the duplicate image beside the original one. To do this, right click again on space (i.e. with the mouse cursor NOT over an image) and select Paste.
3. Next, right click on the new duplicate image, go to Open with and select Paint.
4. Select the paint brush tool on the left hand side of the screen.
5. Scribble around the part of the picture that you want to hide (do this by holding down the left mouse button while you move the cursor around.)
6. When you are happy with your result, save image and close it.

I created a slide show and used it for the basis of a speaking followed by a writing activity.

Slide show and lesson plan here: bear-story.pdf

Story here.