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University of Kentucky

Department of Chemistry: The Comic Book Periodic Table of Elements

For Students 9th - 10th
The interactive learning resource explores the periodic table of elements. Students click on an element to see a list of comic pages involving that element.
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University of Kentucky

The Comic Book Periodic Table of Elements: Silver

For Students 9th - 10th
This site may focus on fun, rather than facts, but it will become a favorite of any Chemistry student. Here you will find scanned images of panels and/or pages of comic books, with references to the element you seek.
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eBook
Other

Healthy Aboriginal Network: Darkness Calls [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
"Darkness Calls" by Steve Sanderson and Richard Van Camp is a suicide prevention comic book specifically for aboriginal youth. It was widely distributed to Canadian teens in 2006. The superhero in it is based on a Cree legend.
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Interactive
University of Kentucky

University of Kentucky: Chemcomics Boron

For Students 9th - 10th
A comic strip about the "boron bomb." Not real accurate but clever and fun.
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Curated OER

Comic Strip, Flower Power, Printed in Magazine, Baloune, Number 4

For Students 9th - 10th
Comics can be more than just superheroes and funny animals, as this web page on the emergence of comics in Quebec during the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s proves.
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Curated OER

Chem Comics/californium

For Students 9th - 10th
A comic page from 1964 that features californium as one of several elements for which no practical uses were then known.
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Curated OER

Chem Comics: Krypton

For Students 9th - 10th
All sorts of comics (especially Superman) where krypton comes into play. Nice graphics for a presentation or report.
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Website
Other

Molla Nasreddin Comic Sage of the Ages

For Students 9th - 10th
Nasreddin is a famous character (and perhaps real person) in Arabic folktales -- he's wise, and funny; sometimes the sage and sometimes the trickster. This page, part of larger site on Azerbaijan, provides a nice sampling of Nasreddin...
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Other

Nanozone Comics: They Came From His Lab!

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow the adventures Of Kris Pister as he evolves from love of rockets to an interest electrical enginering. Interesting ideas are presented on how smaller and smaller robots can be used in everyday life.
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Other

Nanozone Comics: Honey, I Shrunk Myself!

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow Rachel as she evolves from an interest in solving games and patterns to a career in material science. Watch as she uses nanotechnology to work with polymers. Read about new nanotech devices that can help improve our world in the...
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Other

Nanozone Comics: What Jorge Gardea Torresdey Say

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow the adventures of Jorge as his life evolves from a love of chemistry as a young boy to a scientist working to find new ways that nanotechnology can help clean up the environment.
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Other

Nanozone Comics: Dr. Lydia Sohn Saves the World

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow the life of Dr. Lydia as she evolves from a love of science as a young girl to solving tough questions in biology using nanotechonology.
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Other

Nanozone Comics: The Perils of Dr. Paul Alivisatos

For Students 6th - 8th
Trace the life of Dr. Paul from his interest in chemistry as a young boy to a career working with some of the smallest solids we can make, called nanocrystals.
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Handout
Other

Alien Travel Guide: Aristophanes, Comic Playwright

For Students 3rd - 8th
A few sentences of biographical information on the playwright.
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Graphic
British Council

British Council Learn English: Jokes

For Students 9th - 10th
A new cartoon joke weekly and an archive of previous strips organized by topic (animal, family, doctor). All involve a pun or play on words, and are drawn in a non-busy, ELL/ESL friendly style.
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BBC

Bbc: Celts: Make Your Own Cartoon Strip

For Students 3rd - 8th
Create a cartoon based on the Celts during the Iron Age. Choose a background and two characters. Then type dialogue for both characters and add a title. Finally, watch the cartoon come to life. Print to share with others.
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Activity
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Playcomic

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
These are a lot of fun activities where you can paint a comic, finish a comic, transform a story to comic, fill out balloons to give sense to the story, and modify a comic and turning it into a story. Also with more than 800 elements at...
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eBook
Bibliomania

Bibliomania: The Pickwick Papers (Full Text)

For Students 9th - 10th
This Bibliomania website provides the full text of Charles Dickens's first novel The Pickwick Papers. A brief summary of this novel is also included, which points out its comic qualities in contrast to the darker, social commentary of...
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Handout
Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Shakespeare "Merchant of Venice"

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides the full text of Shakespeare's play, "The Merchant of Venice." The text, which is organized by scene, is accompanied by a brief introduction with an overview of the play's "Comic elements," and its plot and characters.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: If Superpowers Were Real: Body Mass

For Students 9th - 10th
What if manipulating body mass wasn't just the stuff of fantasies and comics? Is it scientifically possible to manipulate your body mass? In this series, creator and educator Joy Lin tackles superpowers and reveals just how...
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University of Kentucky

University of Kentucky: Chemcomics: Bismuth

For Students 9th - 10th
Five comic strips from the 60's involving bismuth. There are not vast amounts of information, but they could be great graphics for a report or presentation.
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University of Notre Dame

Greybeards at Play: Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen

For Students 9th - 10th
Comic illustrations and witty text are highlights of this online book by the humorist G. K. Chesterton.
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Website
Mythweb

Mythweb: The Labors of Hercules (Heracles)

For Students 9th - 10th
The story of the twelve labors of Hercules, delightfully told with comic illustrations in slideshow format.
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Website
Other

Amos Web: A Pedestrian's Guide to the Economy

For Students 9th - 10th
Exploring the economy can be a fun adventure with the Pedestrian's Guide to the Economy. Use this site to find your answers to economic topics in a user-friendly format with comic strip guides.

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