Lesson: Cartooning - 4th Grade to 5th Grade (Visual Arts and Science)

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Lesson: Cartooning - 4th Grade to 5th Grade (Visual Arts and Science)

Inside a cartoonist’s world - Liza Donnelly

From cave drawings to the Sunday paper, artists have been visualizing ideas -- cartoons -- for centuries. New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly walks us through the many stages every cartoon goes through, starting with an idea and turning into something that connects us on a deeply human level.

Lesson: The Exploration of Rocks, Crystals, and Fossils Through Cartooning- 2nd Grade (Science and Visual Art)

Cartooning Your Way to Student Motivation

Lesson: The Exploration of Rocks, Crystals, and Fossils Through Cartooning- 2nd Grade (Science and Visual Arts)

Science Scope. July 2009.

Lesson: The Exploration of Rocks, Crystals, and Fossils Through Cartooning- 2nd Grade

Unmotivated, underachieving students pose a huge challenge for teachers. One way to motivate and stimulate student interest in a topic is to use humor. Humor can help students make new connections in learning and improves retention of information (Garner 2006). In this article, the authors describe how they integrated art and literature with science to encourage curiosity through the exploration of rocks, crystals, and fossils; to fuel interest with science trade books; and to translate newly acquired science information into funny cartoons. The cartoon-making activities engage students while they learn Earth science concepts and develop their abilities to visualize and combine ideas in new ways.