COMIC LIFE FOR THE SCIENCE CLASSROOM Created by Winnie Milner, media specialist For Warren County Career Center November 2013

WHAT IS COMIC LIFE? AN AWARD WINNING APPLICATION USED FOR A MULTITUDE OF VISUAL PURPOSES DON'T JUST THINK OF IT AS A COMIC STRIP CREATOR! YOUTUBE 3-MINUTE INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION

GENERAL USES OTHER THAN TYPICAL COMICS… ANNOTATED IMAGES, SIGNS & EVENT FLYERS, HOW-TO GUIDES & INSTRUCTION MANUALS, DYNAMIC PHOTO ALBUMS, ARTICLES, SCRAPBOOKS & FAMILY TREES, FIELD TRIP & INTERNSHIP DEBRIEFS, GREETING CARDS & NEWSLETTERS, STUDENT, STAFF & CLASS INTRODUCTIONS, ORIENTATIONS, PROTOCOL OR RULES, GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS, TABLES, CHARTS & TIMELINES, SPECIAL CERTIFICATES, PICTURE BOOKS, CULMINATING ASSIGNMENTS & MORE...

HOW CAN IT BE USED IN SCIENCE? PRESENT INFORMATION BASED ON THE PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS

HOW CAN IT BE USED IN SCIENCE? SPEAK OR EXPLORE SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT FROM AN INANIMATE OBJECT OR ABSTRACT CONCEPT’S POINT OF VIEW

HOW CAN IT BE USED IN SCIENCE? GRAPHIC ORGANIZER FOR… KWL SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESIS REACTION (INCLUDING PICTURES OF THE EVENT) TO A SPECIFIC PROCESS OR EXPERIMENT LIKE LAUNCHING ROCKETS

HOW CAN IT BE USED IN SCIENCE? DEMONSTRATING A PROCESS CELL STRUCTURE & FUNCTION PHOTOSYTHESIS DNA STRUCTURE MUTATIONS ATOM EXPLORING CAUSE & EFFECT EARTH SYSTEMS CLIMATE CHANGE

HOW CAN IT BE USED IN SCIENCE? RECREATING EUREKA MOMENTS IN SCIENCE, COMPARING QUALITIES OF IGNEOUS, METAMORPHIC, AND SEDIMENTARY ROCK, CREATING POSTERS BASED ON THE IMPORTANCE OF SAFETY WHEN COMPLETING EXPERIMENTS, REPORTING ON GENES, GENE MUTATIONS, SEX LINKED TRAITS, ETC. EXPLORING A FAMOUS SCIENTIST’S LIFE AND DISCOVERIES, GIVING A VOICE TO ELECTRONS, ATOMS, INTERNAL ORGANS, & PHOTOSYNTHESIS, ETC., PRESENTING INFORMATION ON MINERALS THAT HAS BEEN GATHERED THROUGH EXPERIMENTS, ANALYSIS, OR RESEARCH.

VERY BASIC & EASY TO USE USERS CHOOSE FROM: TEMPLATES (ABOVE RIGHT), BLANK PAGES WITH DRAG & DROP STYLES (BOTTOM RIGHT), OR COMPLETELY BLANK PAGES

RESOURCES LINK TO A COMIC LIFE SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENT LINK EXCELLENT HIGHER LEVEL BLOG EXAMPLEEXAMPLE EVAPORATION & CONDENSATION EXAMPLEEXAMPLE PORT WASHINGTON DISTRICT’S POOL OF EXAMPLES EXAMPLES SLIDESHARE PRESENTATION ON COMIC LIFEPRESENTATION

TIPS & TRICKS YOU DON’T HAVE TO JUST USE PICTURES IN YOUR COMICS DOCUMENTS, POWERPOINT SLIDES, ETC. CAN BE CONVERTED INTO IMAGE FILES (JPG, TIFF, PNG, ] STUDENTS CAN USE PERSONAL DRAWINGS AS WELL AND THEN IMPORT THEM TO COMIC LIFE

ONE LAST NOTE… COMIC LIFE CAN BE EXPORTED BY USING QUICKTIME, STUDENTS CAN MAKE A SLIDESHOW/ MOVIE LINK TO COMIC LIFE MOVIE