Comic Makeovers: Examining Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Media
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=207
The Comic Makeovers lesson is tailored for 9-12 graders and can be used in English, history, journalism, or other relevant social studies classes. This lesson involves students exploring existing comics that use stereotyped representations of race, gender, class, and ethnicity. Students then “re-envision” them by creating new comics with more realistic images.
Ride the Rock Cycle
http://sciencespot.net/Pages/classearth.html
This is a fun earth science activity for grades 6-8, which illustrates how Comic Life can be used in science classes. Students explore the rock cycle and then create a story about “Roger, a metamorphic rock,” depicting and explaining “transitions” he’s gone through in his life.
Teaching Literary Devices
http://www.teachingcomics.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=73%3ATeaching+Literary+Devices+with+Comics&catid=36%3ALesson+Plans&Itemid=57
This lesson is for English classes, grades 6-12. Students use Comic Life to create comics using literary devices taught in class. Teaching Literary Devices is a good example of a short-term activity utilizing Comic Life.
All the News That’s Fit to Print
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2337/
This lesson is geared toward ESL students in grades 9-12. The lesson involves students reading several variations of Cinderella and then creating a newspaper, including a comic section, on the story. This lesson illustrates how creating comics can help English Language Learners and could be easily adapted to use Comic Life.
Government in the Colonies
http://www.edtech.sandi.net/old305/handouts/iphoto/deneve%20AR/Comic.html
Gold Rush
http://www.edtech.sandi.net/old305/handouts/iphoto/gold/Comic.html
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=207
The Comic Makeovers lesson is tailored for 9-12 graders and can be used in English, history, journalism, or other relevant social studies classes. This lesson involves students exploring existing comics that use stereotyped representations of race, gender, class, and ethnicity. Students then “re-envision” them by creating new comics with more realistic images.
Ride the Rock Cycle
http://sciencespot.net/Pages/classearth.html
This is a fun earth science activity for grades 6-8, which illustrates how Comic Life can be used in science classes. Students explore the rock cycle and then create a story about “Roger, a metamorphic rock,” depicting and explaining “transitions” he’s gone through in his life.
Teaching Literary Devices
http://www.teachingcomics.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=73%3ATeaching+Literary+Devices+with+Comics&catid=36%3ALesson+Plans&Itemid=57
This lesson is for English classes, grades 6-12. Students use Comic Life to create comics using literary devices taught in class. Teaching Literary Devices is a good example of a short-term activity utilizing Comic Life.
All the News That’s Fit to Print
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2337/
This lesson is geared toward ESL students in grades 9-12. The lesson involves students reading several variations of Cinderella and then creating a newspaper, including a comic section, on the story. This lesson illustrates how creating comics can help English Language Learners and could be easily adapted to use Comic Life.
Government in the Colonies
http://www.edtech.sandi.net/old305/handouts/iphoto/deneve%20AR/Comic.html
Gold Rush
http://www.edtech.sandi.net/old305/handouts/iphoto/gold/Comic.html