Teaching the history of parabolas through memes! Click on the cover to access the full PDF of The Shambling Parabola!
Not Your Momma’s Book Report
We all know the good ole book report format. You read the book, you answer some questions and badda-bing-badda-boom you get a big check mark. It’s straightforward, it works, but why does the book report have to look the same…
BreakAppz makes resources designed for teachers by teachers.
We recently learned about the fantastic educational resources created by Dale Sidebottom over at BreakAppz. The wonderful news is that is was all created with the help of Comic Life! Dale has been sharing his amazing resources on Twitter, Facebook and…
The Comic Olympics: Sochi 2014
I’m going to go ahead and admit that this post is a little late, but I wanted to make sure that these amazing students get their time in the spotlight. Fourth Year students create comics featuring their favorite Canadian Olympic…
Athletics Resources
I am always surprised with how many Physical Education comics we see week in and week out. Though I guess I shouldn’t be because those are they are the most active teachers… get it? Most active. Heh. Aaaaanyway… Take a…
Flipped Learning Mats
I’ll admit it… This is pilfered from someone else’s blog. Fortunately they don’t seem to mind the idea of shared learning. Thank you to the fantastic folks over at Fulston Manor School! Enjoy! Flipped Learning Mats using Comic Life Ok,…
Harlem Renaissance and Reluctant Writers
Comic Life is a great tool for helping students who struggle with writing. Comics help to break down the paragraph in to shorter, more approachable, sentences. And having visuals to prompt the writing helps students fill out a full story rather than…
Interactive Story Telling
The craftiness of educators blows my mind sometimes. I mean, really, y’all are amazing. In this post I’d like to highlight some of the super crafty action from the folks over at Davyhulme Primary School who have been creating some…
Anatomy of the Human Body
Comic Life can be used to create things that look as comic like as this… …. But that’s not always the look people are going for. Some people want to do serious things, make images that are useful to surgeons…
Telling The Story of the Titanic
We all know that the story of the Titanic, and its ill fated journey lends itself to epic retellings from musicals to films to novels. Anyone with a radio in 1997 remembers Celine Dion singing about her heart going on and…
Book Report Project In Comic Life
I’ll admit that the post below is almost entirely lifted from an educational blog dedicated to ICT-ELT, which is geared toward incorporating visual and technological support into teaching. They’re all about adopting and adapting tools to use in the classroom,…
Dinosaur Escape!
There are so many layers of creativity going on in this project that I can hardly stand it! There’s creative writing, painting, mystery and intrigue, problem solving, and storytelling with comics. It’s just so good! Students at Whitefield Primary School…
Hooray For The Humanities
Here’s a great one page comic about teaching humanities from Joanne Harris. It’s short, simple and packed with information. Enjoy!
Adding Tech Spice To PE
A big thanks to @TechforPE (Jorge Rodriguez) for posting a video about using Comic Life posters and augmented reality in the classroom. Here are some of the lesson details from PE Stations at Harvard Elementary: • Portfolio set up •…
Comic Life as an Assessment Tool
Hello! Thanks to our fancy schmancy suggestion bar at the bottom of our posts we recently had a request to write about Comic Life as an assessment tool. And that’s just what we’re going to do. First off I want…