5th Grade Art: St. George and the Dragon, Podcasting, and QR codes

After discussing and looking at dragons from around the world and listening to a couple of versions of St. George and the Dragon, students created their own stylistic illustration. Some students made changes to the story with a heroine; others changes the setting or climate. After using the Chrome app, voice recorder, to record their story, students uploaded their podcast to Google drive and created a QR code.
Listen to their stories by scan the codes.

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