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Creating a Cartoon

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this journalism worksheet, learners learn the guidelines for creating a political or editorial cartoon. Students complete 5 questions which help them plan the purpose, characters and setting for the cartoon. Learners then draw the...
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Music Technology: Adding a Voice to a Cartoon

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students add their voice to a cartoon character and review sound waves using music technology software. They record specific information into the computer using a microphone and import their voice into the Flash program and apply it to...
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Narrative Cartoons

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young scholars create a narrative cartoon. In this narrative lesson, students use a Peace Corp website to collect information and photographs that they add captions to and use to create their own narrative cartoons.
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Narrative Cartoons

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students create narrative cartoons based on the activities of the Peace Corps. In this narrative cartoons lesson plan, students create comic strips where they draw and write about various activities that the Peace Corps is involved in.
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Imaginative Power - Exploring Superheroes

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify super human powers and their uses found in comic and cartoon characters, identify use of visual elements such as line, shape, and color, and create drawings of an original super character with at least two extra...
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Creating Cartoons

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students produce a one slide cartoon. They import images, background, characters, and props. They research images and put it together in a Power Point presentation. They create a cartoon with sound files and apply movement through the...
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Animation Pre-Production

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Does your class love reading cartoons? Use their talents and interests to examine the process of writing a story they wish to tell through a cartoon. They develop the beginning, middle, and end of a story based on their original...
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Narrative Cartoons

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compare and contrast the traditional superhero cartoon with a narrative cartoon. Students research water resources and usage in Africa and create original narrative cartoons showcasing their findings.
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Learning to Analyze Characters

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students discover writing strategies authors use to enhance characters.  In this character writing lesson, students are read the Knuffle Bunny books by Mo Willems and analyze the story, characters and settings as they listen....
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Remembering Chuck Jones

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students investigate the art of animation and various cartoon characters created by Chuck Jones. They complete a Webquest, watch video clips, draw a cartoon character, answer discussion questions, and create an original caricature of a...
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Animation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the field of animation to describe characters and express opinions. They view pictures of cartoon characters, clips of British animation, and read about the making of Valiant. They design their own cartoon character...
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Comic Theater

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore stock characters and pantomime. In this comic theater lesson, students examine an ancient Greek statuette depicting a comic actor and an ancient Roman lamp decorated with a comic mask. Students pantomime short scenes and...
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Rediscovering the Lost Civilization of Greece

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students explore four ancient cities of Greece that the apostle Paul visited.  In this Bible studies lesson students create cartoon characters, travel advisories and explore the daily lives in these cities through creative...
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Number line Lane Characters-- Full Color Number 8

For Students K - 1st
For this math worksheet, students learn to recognize the number 8. Students examine a full color cartoon character number 8, complete with arms and legs. This humorous page could be a poster in the classroom.
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Hey Arnold Word Search

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this TV cartoon word search, students read 9 names of characters from the children's cartoon series called "Hey Arnold." Students find these names in a word search.
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Arthur Word Search

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this children's cartoon and book word search worksheet, students read the names of 7 characters in the book and TV cartoon Arthur. Students find these in a word search puzzle.
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Four-Corner Cartoon Traveling

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice moving safely in a general space and travel using a variety of locomotor movements in this variation of the game Four Corners.
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Comic Book or Comic Strip Design

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students design an original cartoon character. They explain the creative process and development of a cartoon from brainstorming to final draft and study different types of cartooning. Use the correct terminology associated with cartooning
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A Teacher's Guide to The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
What if the Gingerbread Man was trying to catch you, rather than the other way around? Pupils can find out what happens by reading the story The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School by Laura Murray and enrich their experience with the...
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Comic Strip Three

For Students Higher Ed
In this ESL comic strip worksheet, students examine a cartoon that has blank dialogue bubbles. Students answer 5 questions about the cartoon, then fill in a conversation.
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Comic Strip Two

For Students Higher Ed
In this ESL comic strip learning exercise, students analyze a cartoon strip that has blank dialogue bubbles. Students create a conversation by filling in the bubbles.
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Flintstones Word Search

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this cartoon word search worksheet, students read the names of 9 characters from "The Flintstones." Students find these in a word search puzzle.
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Shrek Word Search

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this Shrek word search activity, learners read the names of 11 characters from the movie. Students find these in a word search puzzle.
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Character and Plot Development Through Comics

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders are introduced to character, plot development, point of view, and tone through the use of comic strips. They, in pairs, identify these four attributes in the comic strip and present their findings to the class.

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