This teachers’ guide describes how to use universal visual language and the transformative power of comics to educate young people in every corner of the globe about the Sustainable Development Goals.
This 2018 guide introduces teachers to the benefits of using graphic novels in the classroom, offers teaching strategies, and recommends age appropriate reading resources to start with.
This $0 pay-what-you-will comic by Cara Bean offers concrete tips for dealing with stress, getting adequate sleep, facing substance abuse, building resilience, facing depression, addressing suicidal ideation, and reducing stigma around mental health issues. Ideal for visual literacy and mental health in relation to characters in Language Arts.
Create your own comic strips. Select from 10 fun characters with different moods and write words for blank talk/thought balloons to make the characters talk and think. There also are story ideas and prompts to help you create graphic stories.
Pixar in a Box is a behind-the-scenes look at how Pixar artists do their jobs. You will be able to animate bouncing balls, build a swarm of robots, and make virtual fireworks explode. But you'll also explore Pixar's storytelling method.
A collection of 14 very short films from the National Film Board that introduce the basic concepts and skills needed to create your own stop-motion animation film.
What is visual literacy and what is the importance of this type of literacy for teaching and learning? This guide provides a good base for researching and understanding visual literacy.
In this activity, students are dealt five random photos. Once the images are organized, the set works to tell a story in pictures. Students can add a title and explanation to their story.
A lesson plan that can be used with students from 6-12. Students will create an infographic to share knowledge and data about an issue or science topic they are studying.
Kathy Schrock has a video presentation "to help you develop formative or summative assessments that have students creating infographics to showcase their mastery of knowledge." There is a short overview of the presentation at 2:27 minutes or the full presentation which is 50 minutes.
Draw.io est un excellent outil pour créer des organigrammes afin d'illustrer la hiérarchie d'un programme ou les relations entre idées. L'interface du site est en anglais.
Use this simple infographic tool to visually present information. You can share/embed your infographic or download your infographics as PNG's or PDF's.
The KnightLab at Northwestern University has created several open-source tools that let students build interactive timelines, storymaps, and add information to images.
Create beautiful photos, logos, social media graphics, and facebook covers with PicMonkey's easy yet powerful photo editing and graphic design software. Free trial access.
This is a free program that lets you publish interactive data visualizations to the web. Browse through the learning videos to see how you could use these with your students.
Find creative ways to express your ideas. Word Clouds For Kids makes it very easy for students to print or save their results. There is a slider to adjust the number of words used and the results can be edited for color, font, layout, etc.
