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Using comics across the curriculum

Creating comics is an engaging cross-curricular activity that levels the playing field, helps students demonstrate learning, and scaffolds bigger projects in any subject.

 

These days, we’re all pretty accustomed to seeing Marvel dominate the box office. But when I tell people that comics also dominate my classroom, they’re often taken a little aback–especially if they know I teach geography.

Comics are a fantastic tool for inspiring student engagement, leveling the playing field so students can demonstrate their learning even if they aren’t great writers, and scaffolding intimidating projects. While it might be easier to see how comics would fit into an English language arts class, there’s no great trick to incorporating them across the curriculum.

Why comics?

The most obvious reason to have students create comics in class is because they’re fun. From the private school where I started teaching to my current position at Toby Farms Intermediate School, a Title I school with a large population of at-risk students, comics have helped to capture student attention so much that they create their own fun along the way, no matter how dry the topic is.

To read a little more about using comics in your classroom, you can click the link below (or the heading above) >>>>>> COMICS in the CLASSROOM

 

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2021/03/25/using-comics-across-the-curriculum/?ps=jmasciarelli%40niagara.edu-0010c00002Fjuky-0030c00002z9yd8&esmc=200864