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__ Creating an original story using comic life! __ Welcome back explorers! Now that you have explored Antarctica and the animals that live there, using comic life you will need to create an original story on your own on Antarctica animals. Make sure you have lots of ideas for your story. Think of what animals you would like to include, what sort of story is it going to be about, and also try to make it interesting and engaging for others to read. **[Step 1]** Before you begin do you remember what a comic life is?
 * ~ Activity 3 ~**



Here is an example of comic life about Antarctica animals! **[Step 2]** //Simple steps on using comic life//
 * 1) **The first step in making your own comic book is choose you "paper" size and layout - There are about 40 different layouts to choose from**
 * 2) **Drag the layout you wish to use to your first page**
 * 3) **Once you have got your layout, you need to add images by dragging it to boxes in your layout**
 * 4) **You can resize and rotate your image with a handy rotation tool that appears**
 * 5) **There are different text bubbles design to use and you can also add sound effect**

Your comic book can have photos from your camera or you can use pictures from the web which you will be doing today. Using search engines like google can help you collect all the images you need for you story.
 * [Step 3]**

Your story must include: If you have forgotten the structure of writing a short story, [|here is some tips] [Step 4]
 * beginning
 * middle
 * end
 * conflict (problem)
 * resolution (problem which has been fixed)

Once you have decide on what your story is going to be about, open up comic life on your computer and start playing and have fun creating your story with all the tools they provide you. When you finish, save and print a copy out with your name on it.