In this activity, students create their own comic strip about possible solutions to climate change.
The teacher guide has helpful information and possible comic ideas about three major sectors that are contributing to climate change: energy, agriculture, and transportation.
Teaching Tips
Positives
This is an excellent way to bring climate change into an art classroom.
The teacher's guide contains a sample comic strip.
Additional Prerequisites
Students should have some prior knowledge of climate change.
Differentiation
Students could create their comic strips individually or in small groups.
The teacher could coordinate so that each comic strip features a different solution to climate change.
Teachers could publish the comic strips in the school newspaper or on the school website.
This activity helps students gain an understanding of climate change through creating a comic about solutions to different climate change issues. This resource is recommended for teaching.
Standards
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
4-ESS3-2 Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.
5-ESS3-1 Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.
National Core Arts Standards
Visual Arts: Standard 2 - Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
VA:Cr2.1.5a Experiment and develop skills in multiple art-making techniques and approaches through practice.
