Your Challenge: Create a trailer or movie poster for the sequel to your favorite movie or TV show.
Background: Isn’t it the worst when you find out that your favorite TV show isn’t filming a new season? Or you wish you could find out what happened after the movie ended? Now you can—but you’re the one in charge!
Considerations: As you start planning your sequel, consider these questions:
-Think about the main elements of a story: setting, characters, main events, conflict, and resolution. How will you address these in your sequel?
-What characters will still be around? What new characters will join the cast?
-What should you include in your trailer or poster to get people excited to see it?
Goal:
1. Choose your favorite movie or TV show
2. Brainstorm the main elements of the story
3. Plan your product
4. Movie Poster: Sketch what it will look like
5. Trailer: Create a storyboard of the main scenes in the trailer
6. Create your product
-Movie Poster: Use Google Drawings, Canva, another similar software program, or paper and markers or pencils
-Trailer: Use your phone, tablet, or any recording device to film the scenes for your trailer. If you have access to an editing software like iMovie, add an intro, premiere date, and names of the movie stars
7. Share your creation with the world and tag #thinkerspacechallenge
Modifications for Young Learners: Read part of a story to your students and have them finish the story. Students can record themselves telling the rest of the story or they can use paper and pencils to create the pictures and text for the rest of the book. Ask older students to choose their favorite story and rewrite the ending. Students can do this with paper and pencil, Google Slides, or a fun tool like Elementari.io