Podcast4:15
KERA

"Baldo" Comic Strip Features Latino Voices

Pre-K - Higher Ed
The comic strip Baldo has been published in newspapers across the United States for 20 years. It was the first ever to feature a Latino family as the main characters. Hector Cantu, the author of Baldo was inspired to create the comic...
Instructional Video10:19
TED Talks

TED: How comic strips create better health care | Sam Hester

12th - Higher Ed
Comics creator Sam Hester is part of a growing movement within health care: graphic medicine. In short, literally drawing attention to a patient's needs and goals with pictures to foster better and more accessible caretaking. Hester...
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Andrews McMeel Publishing

POW! A Peanuts Collection

3rd - 7th Standards
Make a study of Charles M. Scultz's famous comic strip Peanuts in your language arts class. Class members read and discuss the baseball-themed book POW! A Peanuts Collection. After talking about themes and vocabulary, they complete...
Instructional Video6:48
Lesson Planet

EdTech Tuesday: Make Beliefs Comix

2nd - 12th
An iPad, a free app, or a free website are all kids need to create comic strips that tell stories, recount events, or express feelings. Rich and Jennifer discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the app, as well as model how to use this...
Instructional Video4:38
Lesson Planet

EdTech Tuesday: Scribble Press

2nd - 8th Standards
Discover the fantastic app that allows students to transform their in-class writings into published, hard-copy material. This video will walk you through the pros and cons of using this application, including price, classroom uses,...
Instructional Video4:23
TED-Ed

Inside a Cartoonist's World

7th - 12th
Introduce your class to cartooning and the process of creating a comic. Liza Donnelly, cartoonist for The New Yorker, narrates the steps she takes to write and illustrate a cartoon. She also gets at the roles of a comic and how readers...
Instructional Video12:57
Crash Course

Don't Reanimate Corpses! Frankenstein Part 1

9th - 12th
"Who is more human? Victor Frankenstein or the nameless monster he created?" This, according to the narrator of a two-part presentation on Frankenstein, is the essential question. The video begins with a summary of the action of the...
Instructional Video4:38
Amoeba Sisters

Genetic Drift

7th - 12th Standards
Survival is a game of chance, catch my drift? Examine the factors that influence genetic drift with an entertaining video from a large biology playlist. The resource covers the myriad conditions that come into play when a species...
Instructional Video7:49
Physics Girl

Strange Unexplained Cosmic Rays

9th - Higher Ed Standards
The truth about strange unexplained cosmic rays? They're still unexplained! Share one of our universe's many unsolved mysteries with your class using a video from the Physics Girl playlist. The resource describes what cosmic rays are,...

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