3D Shapes
In this lesson, students will have the opportunity to practice using language to describe the basic features of three dimensional shapes. Students will use key vocabulary to compare and discuss shapes.
How to Teach with Comics
Ideas for how educators can use comics and avatars in their classroom.
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A Day in My Life
Students will create a comic taking the reader through a typical day in their life.
Acrostic Poems and Comprehension
Students will write Acrostic poems to demonstrate their comprehension of a literature selection.
Active and Passive Voice
In this lesson, students will have the opportunity to practice using both active and passive voices.
Actually Fake News
“Fake news” is a term meant to indicate when a news source is misrepresented or not factual. This is often the result of bias in reporting, whether conscious or not. These days, we are each burdened with the task of filtering out this “noise” so that we can get to the heart of matters and not be distracted by loud, preference-driven commentary. Use this lesson to promote critical thinking and introspection among your students.
Adverbial Phrases
Students will practice working with adverb phrases to help provide descriptions while speaking and writing.
African American Spirituals
Students will learn how some African American spirituals became necessary for exchanging secret messages among fugitive slaves for safe movement along the Underground Railroad.
America: The Melting Pot
Students will become familiar with the variety of reasons different groups of people chose to leave their homes and start a new life in America.
Analyzing Authors’ Work
Students will create a comic to demonstrate how two authors present different information about the same topic.
Animal Habitats
Frogs, monkeys, polar bears and more! Learn about the different habitats animals live in.
Area and Perimeter
In this lesson, students will write and solve word problems for the perimeter or area of a rectangle.
Athens and Sparta: Are They the Same or Different?
Students will identify the similarities and differences between the Greek city-states, Sparta and Athens.
Autism Awareness
Autism is a developmental disorder which affects approximately 1 in 54 children in the United States. Symptoms often include difficulty communicating with other people, repetitive behaviors and sensory sensitivities. Bring awareness and understanding to your students about autism, and teach them how to respond appropriately to pertinent situations with patience and sensitivity.
Be an Upstander!
Students will learn about living as an upstander and explore what they might say to someone who is bullying someone else.
Calling All Inventors!
In this lesson, students will imagine an invention that would solve a problem at home or at school.
Calling All Superheroes!
Students will create a STEM superhero based on one of the components of STEM. Students will craft a scenario for their superhero based on their traits and area of expertise.
Calm Down Strategies
This lesson is intended to reinforce and create an individualized calm down strategy for students.
Cause and Effect
Students will create a comic to demonstrate their understanding of cause and effect from informational text.
Cause and Effect Words
Students will learn about cause and effect words and use them in their own writing.
Celebrate Your Peers!
Students will interview a classmate and create a comic celebrating their unique strengths and passions.
Checks and Balances
Students will learn how each branch of government plays a role in making sure another branch does not become too powerful using a system of checks and balances.
Climate Change
Climate Change is often cited as the defining issue of our time, as its ongoing effects threaten our collective future. In this lesson students will learn about climate change, its causes, potential impacts, and things that humans can do to address it.
Coach It! Problem Solving
Students will use key words to solve word problems using multiplication and/or division and create a problem solving comic.
Code It and Define It
In this lesson, students will define a coding term by describing and providing an example of it in context.
Cognates
Students will notice cognates that exist in English and Spanish. These are words that are both visibly and audibly similar, and have the same meaning.
Comparing Numbers
In this lesson, students will read and write numbers in base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form. Students will also compare numbers using >, <, = symbols.
Consequences
We are all faced with daily decisions, each of which has good and/or bad consequences. Our ability to tackle these choices in an informed and responsible manner is key to the development of our personal character. Illustrate the consequences of our decisions, big and small.
Conserve to Preserve
Students will identify a current global issue affecting our environment and determine a method for resolving the issue.
Cultural Events in My State
Students will explore different cultural events throughout their state and learn why they are important.
Dare to Compare
In this lesson, students will work in pairs to explain how to create common denominators and compare fractions. Students will show the calculations used to create common denominators on a separate worksheet.
Dark and Stormy
Get students familiarized with Pixton by asking them to imagine a spooky story about being alone in a house on a dark and stormy night.
Decoding Coding Vocabulary
In this lesson, students will demonstrate their knowledge of key coding vocabulary.
Denotation and Connotation
Understanding the difference between denotation, the strict meaning of a word, and connotation, the feeling the word conjures, can be challenging to wrap one’s head around. Visually demonstrate the difference for readers and writers.
Desert Island
Consider the classic question, "Who or what would you take with you if you were stranded on a desert island?" with your students. Encourage students to apply their critical-thinking and problem-solving skills to ensure their survival.
Details, Details!
Students will create a comic demonstrating their understanding of the main idea and details of a story.
Determining Author’s Purpose
In this lesson students will be able to determine the author’s purpose of a text.
Diabetes
Use this to lesson to introduce students to diabetes and strategies for maintaining good health.
Digital Habits Quiz
Students will take a true or false quiz to test their knowledge about digital usage and their mental health, and then create a comic showing some positive alternatives.
Distance Problems
Students will interpret data to write and solve a real-world word problem involving distance.
Egyptian Math Mashup
Practice math skills and learn about Egyptian history at the same time with this activity.
Exponent Power
In this lesson, students will learn to write and evaluate matching expressions and exponential form involving whole-number exponents.
Family Life
Introduce a special family - from "a day in the life," to cherished memories. Have your students add characters that look like relatives for a uniquely personalized experience.
Famous Women Scientists
From Marie Curie to Jane Goodall, Alice Ball to Gertrude B. Elion, female scientists have always played a major role in the advancement of our understanding of the world around us. Research and celebrate the achievements of these dedicated experts in their fields.
Father's Day
Students can create the perfect Fathers’ Day card, incorporating an avatar of themselves and their father or guardian as well as a message to express how much this family member means to them.
Feudalism Brings Order to Europe
Students will understand why Feudalism was developed and the social hierarchy that resulted from this political landscape.
Find the Good
In this lesson, students will describe a beneficial way to utilize the Internet and/or social media that impacts the greater good.
First Day of a New School Year
Students will think about how they and others are feeling about the return to school.
Flower Power Division
Students will solidify their understanding of division while creating a word problem comic.
Following a Routine
This lesson is intended to reinforce what to do during daily routines to help students be successful and minimize disruptions in the classroom.
Fraction Word Problems
In this lesson, students will write and solve word problems involving the addition or subtraction of fractions with like denominators.
Fractions
This lesson is intended to reinforce vocabulary and language used to describe fractions. It can be used as an ESL lesson or as a math lesson to reinforce the concept of fractions.
Gaslighting
Gaslighting is a term used to describe a particular kind of emotional abuse. It's the act of manipulating someone into questioning the validity of their own perceptions, thoughts and memories. Introduce students to this serious problem often experienced in personal relationships and by means of public figures.
Genres
This lesson is intended to reinforce the language and vocabulary needed to discuss the genre of a text. Use this lesson as an informal assessment to determine the knowledge and features of genres.
Get to the Root
This lesson provides students with the opportunity to practice using Greek and Latin roots to help figure out the meaning of words they’re not familiar with.
Global Problem Solvers
Students will describe an invention that would solve a global or environmental problem, e.g., flooding, waste disposal, pollution, extreme heat, etc.
Gratitude Scavenger Hunt
Through prompted questions in comics, students will reflect and learn to be grateful.
Greeting a New Student
After learning how to greet people in the target language, students will read a sample conversation comic and make a comic of their own.
Greetings!
Students will practice formal and informal phrases for greetings, making introductions, polite conversation, and saying goodbye.
Guess My Number
In this lesson, students will provide clues to the location of a mystery rational number on the number line.
Healthy Relationships
Set your students up for life in and out of school by teaching them about healthy vs. unhealthy relationships.
How Similar Are We?
Students will be able to compare and contrast cultural aspects of different ancient civilizations that developed around the same time.
I Declare
Students will read an informational text and practice using declarative statements to provide objective, factual information.
I Used to Think / Now I Think
Students will use the "I Used to Think/Now I Think" strategy to help them determine specific text evidence and infer information drawn from text. They will create a comic to demonstrate their understanding before and after reading.
Impact of Resources in a Region
Students will recognize and understand the impact resources have in the development and growth of their region, either locally or statewide.
Indigenous Groups of America and Their Importance
Students will explore the impact of one of the four major indigenous civilizations from the Americas: Olmecs, Incas, Aztecs, or Mayas.
Innovation Starts With Us
Students will explore different inventions and innovations during the Industrial Revolution and the role these inventions had in the United States.
Inspire Donations to Those in Need
Students will practice persuasive writing while inspiring others to donate to charities or people in need.
Integrity
Students will use comic scenarios to discuss whether or not the characters are showing integrity.
Interpreter Needed!
Students will write equations using parentheses, brackets, and/or braces and explain the order of how to solve.
Interpreting Graphs
Students will learn the basic parts of a graph in English and use simple sentences to explain its features. Students will use the information from the graph to draw conclusions.
Justify the Symmetry
In this lesson, students will explain how they know whether a sample object is or is not symmetrical.
Keeping a Clean Digital Footprint
In this lesson, students will describe actions that they can take to keep a clean digital footprint.
Laying the Foundation for the States
Students will identify significant figures and understand why their state was founded and established.
Let's Take a Trip
Students design a comic brochure about a destination and notice language patterns used to describe a specific place.
Main Idea and Details
Students will determine the main idea and at least two supporting details of a passage.
Making Sense of Analogies
Students will better understand the relationship between words by completing analogies.
Making Smart Choices
Students will use reflection questions to learn how to make good decisions at home and in school.
Mark It!
This lesson reinforces the language associated with finding the percent of numbers when solving word problems.
Mindful Morning Routine
Students will use a comic to guide themselves through a short mindful practice.
Mothers' Day
Use this activity to introduce students to the history of Mother's Day while creating the perfect Mother's Day card. Students will incorporate an avatar of themselves and their mother or guardian as they express how much their mothers mean to them.
My Reading Log
Students will reflect on their independent reading selections and demonstrate their understanding of the texts by creating a comic reading log.
Name That Region
Students will learn how the colonial regions; northern, middle, and southern differed economically by exploring the advantages of their locations and what they exported.
Neolithic Revolution
Students will understand the impact agriculture had on culture and daily life of peoples living during the Neolithic Era.
Nouns
Students will define and provide examples of nouns, identify various objects, and use appropriate nouns while writing to bring clarity to the audience.
Opposites Attract!
Students will deepen their understanding of current vocabulary terms by exploring antonyms.
Panama Canal Debate
Students will practice their research and debate skills by creating a comic which explains their perspective on a historic event.
Participation is Key
Students will explore ways in which citizens can participate in the democratic process in the United States.
Party Balloon Subtraction
Students will better understand addition and subtraction by solving and creating multistep word problems.
Passion Project
Students will create a comic to demonstrate their understanding of a topic of their choice. They will conduct basic research for this project.
Pattern Pair Play
Students will create a numerical pattern using a given rule and apply to generate ordered pairs. Students will explain the relationship between the numbers.
Peak, Pit & Horizon Mindful Reflection
Students will mindfully reflect on their week’s highlights, challenges and hopes using a mountain metaphor.
Perfectly Proportionate… or Are They?
Analyze proportional relationships and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
Perseverance Power!
Students will create themselves as “Perseverance Superheroes” and find a quote that inspires them to never give up.
Personal Traditions
Students will create comics about personal traditions they celebrate outside of school.
Phrases for Algebraic Operations
Students will identify key phrases in word problems to determine which operation should be used.
Places in the House
Students will practice vocabulary through the creation of a "Places in the House” comic.
Plural Nouns
Students will explore the rules for making nouns plural and practice using the correct spelling of plural nouns.
Political Cartoons
Students will learn about the impact imperialism had on indigenous peoples and cultures from around the world.
Prefixes
Students will create a comic informing others how to figure out the meaning of a new word using prefixes.
Preposition Power!
Students will learn about prepositions and create a comic to demonstrate the use of prepositions in sentences.
Preserving the Environment
Students will review cause and effect while learning about ways to take care of the environment.
Progressing Action
Students will learn about progressive verb tenses and create a comic to demonstrate their understanding of progressive verb tenses.
Push / Pull Factors
Students will develop an understanding of the reasons why people leave their home and begin a new life in a new place.
Ready, Set, Action!
Students will practice using action verbs to describe what is happening in the present tense.
Religious Diversity in the Ottoman Empire
Students will understand how the Ottoman Empire (1299-1922) maintained control over a religiously diverse group of peoples.
Representing Numbers in Different Ways
Students will learn to represent numbers in different ways by creating a number comic.
Responsibility - What Would You Do?
Students will explore responsibility and reflect on how they would handle authentic moral dilemmas they may face in school or in life.
Responsibility in School and Classroom
Students will illustrate a classroom or school expectation in comic book style.
Rewind Your Routine
Students will organize panels in the sample comic in the order of their own morning routines.
Rights and Responsibilities
Students will be able to distinguish between protected rights and responsibilities as members of their community, state, and country.
Role of Women During WWII
Students will understand the impact women had on the developing identity of the United States as it emerged from WWII as a World Leader.
S.M.A.R.T Goal Refresher
Students will review the meaning of the acronym of “S.M.A.R.T.” goal in preparation to write a goal of their own.
Safe Actions in Tricky Situations
In this lesson, students will explain how they can make a safe choice when faced with a tricky situation online.
Same but Different
Students will learn about homographs and create their own comics to illustrate common homographs.
See, Think, Wonder
Students will use the "See, Think, Wonder" strategy to help them better understand scientific information or text. They’ll demonstrate their understanding in a comic.
Self-Advocacy
This lesson is intended to allow students to practice asking for help while creating a future scenario.
Sequencing Time and Events
Students will use sequence words to describe the order of events in a story when speaking and writing.
Setting Boundaries
Through prompted questions in comics, students will reflect on people and situations where they may have struggled with setting boundaries to better prepare for similar future scenarios.
Shape Classifications
In this lesson, students will classify a given set of shapes and provide an explanation to justify their answer.
Shape Riddles
In this lesson, students will craft riddles to describe 2D shapes based on their points, angles, and lines.
Show Me The Money
Students will understand the three major economic systems and explore the pros and cons of each.
Simple Machines
Students will demonstrate an understanding of simple machines and how they are used to make work easier.
So Many Syllables!
Students will analyze multisyllabic words in context to determine the meaning, syllables, and word parts.
Spot the Differences
Use this fun little exercise to have your students practice their observation skills by having them list out the five differences between these comic panels. Or, use this idea to make your own Spot the Difference activities!
State Your Case!
Students will create a comic expressing an opinion with reasons to support the opinion.
STEM Challenge Reflection
After completing a STEM challenge students will reflect on their thought process and results.
Step-By-Step Solve It
Students will explain the solution of multistep word problems using the four operations.
Story Writing Taking Over
Students will practice planning and writing narratives by creating a comic.
Storytelling: Conflicts and Resolutions
Students will develop story sequence skills while creating a narrative comic.
Student Interview
Students will practice the skills being learned in class by creating I-statements in the target language.
Summary Tweet
Students will read an informational article and determine the central ideas of the text.
Super Suffixes
This lesson is intended to reinforce the idea of determining the meaning of words with suffixes. Students will create a comic to inform others how to figure out the meaning of a new word using suffixes.
Supporting Your Opinions
Students will practice responding to opinion statements of others with their own personal preferences.
Taxation Without Representation
Students will identify ideologies that led to the American Revolution.
Test Taking Strategies
Students will learn some test taking strategies and create a comic to demonstrate their understanding.
That’s Perfect!
Students will learn about perfect verb tenses and create a comic to demonstrate their understanding of perfect verb tenses.
The Art of Apologizing
Through this sample comic, students will learn to use compassionate words when apologizing.
The Big 12 in Greek Mythology
Students will begin to explore the twelve gods and goddesses in Greek mythology.
The Bill of Rights and Me
Students will develop an understanding of the Bill of Rights and how it impacts their lives.
The Events Leading to WWII
Students will investigate key events during the interwar years that indirectly or directly lead to World War II.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Students will analyze a familiar narrative and explain positive and negative effects of events within the text.
The Great Depression
Students will learn about the Great Depression and demonstrate their understanding of this economic downfall.
The Highs and Lows of Positive and Negative Numbers
In this lesson, students will describe the elevations and temperatures of locations using positive and negative numbers.
The Incan Defeat
Students will develop an understanding of how the Incas interacted with the Spanish Conquistadors.
The Jewish Plight: Interwar Years
Students will learn about discrimination, prejudice, and the attempted genocide of Jewish people during the Holocaust and the years leading up to WWII.
The Mighty Power of 10
Students will explain the pattern of the number of zeros of the product when multiplying by powers of 10. Students will recognize that powers of 10 are represented as 10 with an exponent.
The Plot Thickens!
Students will examine a story to determine how the plot unfolds and how the characters change based on the plot.
The Power of Yet!
Students will explore the power of “yet” and create a “Things We Can’t Do Yet!” comic.
The Three Branches of the U.S. Government
Students will learn about the three branches of the U.S. government and be able to differentiate between them.
There’s an App for That
In this lesson, students will develop the idea for an app that will solve a problem they encounter at home or at school.
Think Like a Geographer
Students will explore the interaction inhabitants of river valley civilizations had with their surrounding environments and how they adapted and innovated to meet their needs.
Top 5 Facts
Students will conduct a short research project about a topic. Students will create a comic to demonstrate their understanding of the researched topic of their choice.
Trade Advances Technology
Students will learn how trade between regions contributed to advances in technology.
Transcontinental Railroad
Students will understand the impact the transcontinental railroad had on the economy, environment, and culture of the United States.
Try Time Management Strategies!
Students will learn time management strategies, then choose one to use for a week.
Types of Pronouns
Students will learn about subjective, objective, and possessive pronouns. They will create a comic to demonstrate properly using pronouns in writing.
Using Key Words to Compare and Contrast
Students will practice using key words to signal compare and contrast.
Verb Tenses
Students will use present, past, and future tenses with appropriate time markers when speaking and writing.
Visible and Invisible Me!
Students will define visible characteristics that describe who they are and then explore the invisible characteristics, or things that are unseen and felt inside, that define who they are but people may not know.
Visible Connections
Students will make connections between fictional texts by creating a visual presentation.
Vocabulary: Get the Picture!
Students will determine and clarify unknown vocabulary words by creating a comic version of the Frayer Model.
Water Cycle
Students will demonstrate their understanding of the water (hydrologic) cycle by creating comics depicting and explaining each stage of the cycle.
What Does This Symbol Mean?
Students will explore the historical context from which state symbols became meaningful and symbolic.
What Triggers Me?
Using comic scenarios, students will reflect on what triggers them and how to cope with those triggers.
What's the Point of View?
Students will analyze how an author develops and contrasts points of views of characters in a text.
What? So What? Now What?
Students will learn to better comprehend and check their understanding of nonfiction text by asking reflective questions. They will create a comic to demonstrate their understanding and personal connection to the content in a social studies text.
What’s the Ratio?
Students will define the meaning of a ratio and provide several examples using real-life scenarios.
What’s Your STEM Superpower?
Students will imagine a solution to a real life STEM problem by creating a STEM superhero comic.
Where’s the Evidence?
Students will practice speaking and writing arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Which Is Bigger, Faster, Farther?
In this lesson, students will compare decimals to the thousandths >, <, = by comparing weight, speed, or distance in a comic.
Who Is the Narrator?
Students will learn about first and third person points of view by narrating comics of their own.
Word Detectives
Students will practice using context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word.
World Languages Introductions
This comic will introduce students to basic greetings and how to use the Input Method Editor (keyboard) of the target language.
World War II Cause and Effect
Students will make cause and effect connections between World War I and World War II.
Writing Multi-Digit Word Problems
In this lesson, students will create word problems requiring addition or subtraction of multi-digit numbers. Students will solve word problems written by a classmate.
Yes or No Questions
Students will practice asking and answering "yes" or "no” questions with the verb “do”.
“How Are My Collaboration Skills?” Self Test
Students will take a comic-based collaboration self-assessment to reflect on collaboration skills and goals.