A Year 7 overview of the Battle of Stamford Bridge.Ĭomic strips can be hand drawn and written like the examples above but there are also a wide range of apps available with impressive comic strip templates ready to use. The infographic poster above can be downloaded for free from the Learning Scientists website here.Ī Year 11 History example studying Italian Unification. You can watch an excellent video explanation of dual coding by the learning scientists here. I do believe that with guidance, clearly explained success criteria and a modelled example the comic strip can work very well in the classroom. Dual coding ( combining written information with visuals to support) has become a widely recognised as an effective strategy to support learning and comic strips are a great example of this. When using technology to create comic strips pupils can again place the focus on the layout, design and other features rather than the actual content. The issues with the comic strip are that pupils can spend too much time on the illustrations and colouring rather than focusing on the captions and information, although many pupils can effectively communicate their understanding and knowledge through illustrations too. However, the comic strip task can also be an activity that is a time waster and not support learning – wasting precious lesson time and simply keeping learners busy which of course is not good. They can provide an overview of events, tell a story and so on. The comic strip has often been a popular go-to resource and activity for teachers.

Examples of simple comic strips