Immune System Trading Cards and Storyboarding Remotely

I've described the immune system trading cards that my honors biology class makes here. We are remote this week, and we were ready to work on our trading cards. Fortunately, part of the activity is digital anyway. The adjustment that was needed was getting the illustrations onto the cards. 

Usually we pass the cards around and each of the students illustrates their word on every other student's cards. That part is impossible when we are all remote. To adjust, I had each student illustrate their word by hand, take a picture and insert it into the document. I also gave them the option to illustrate the word digitally, they just couldn't copy and paste from the internet. The class was split fairly evenly, with half of the students illustrating by hand and the other half used Google Drawings to put their illustration together. 

Some of our cards from this week.

After we finish the cards, when we are in class, I have them storyboard the immune response to an infection on our lab tables with characters of the immune system that I give them and chalk markers. This time, I put the characters in Google Slides and asks the students to story board in Slides. I love the bird's eye view I get of them working in Slides (even though I can't see all of the students when they are in breakout rooms. It was so much fun watching their storyboards coming together in real time. It allowed me to see some misconceptions as well and address them with the class.

Here's a link to the Google Slides students used to make the storyboard.