Snails.
Channel: Sarah Dorfler
Date: 2019-06-02

Educational Animation Project: Digital Storytelling
#eLearning #InstructionalDesign #AudibleDesign #2dAnimation
Topic: Snails
Lyrics in description below.

Snails.
Original lyrics & animation by Sarah Dorfler
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Lyrics:

S-N-A-I-L
Gotta little squishy body 
underneath this shell
made of CaCO3.
I’m a gastropod, so you know I’m a G.

When I’m on the go 
you know I’m takin’ my time.
Wanna know where I’ve been?
Just follow my slime
over to your garden where I’m outta control --
You’ll need 24/7 cucumber patrol.

I’m also trying to  eat all of your flowers
so that I can last forty-three thousand hours.

Days on days I can hibernate;
cribbin’ in my calcium carbonate home.
Homie, my home is me.
And if you do Google search of “malacology”
you’ll find invertebrates from river, land, and sea.
And if you see us in the wild just let us be.

I’m a snail and I’m just trying to chill. 
I know I’m low on the food chain.
I’m one of the slowest moving creatures on the planet.
But uh...I really do like the pace of my life.

Do I get along with slugs?
Yes! My neighbor’s a slug. 
Oh, I’m so glad someone asked this.  
I get to talk about Jerry.
We actually have a ton in common;
We’re different creatures but we recognize those similarities in each other and through that, we’ve been able to create a pretty deep relationship. 
We found out that we both have a phobia of frogs and we just had to laugh because, at least, when I’m super freaked out I know I can hide inside my shell, but yeah 
Jerry does not have that luxury, so. 

My dreams?
Oh wow…
Well, I’m not gonna lie, sometimes I do look up and
wonder what it’s like to fly
like some of my enemies comin’ from the sky.

I lost my transparency back when I was young,
but I still know how to breathe through my pallial lung.

And I’m more than my pulmonate anatomy,
Call me spineless, Friend, but I’m just livin’ spine-free.
I don’t think about opinions or if I’m gonna fail
and I’m just being real cuz I’m just being a snail.