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The paper introduces a high-school and college teaching strategy centered on designing and creating scientifically accurate comic strips. These strips are original, student-generated panel sequences that communicate scientific ideas or principles directly or indirectly while correcting misconceptions through clear, feedback-informed assessment.","Integrating physical science and the graphic arts with scientifically accurate comic strips: rationale, description, and implementation  \nWilson Javier González-Espada  \nSchool of Physical and Life Sciences, Arkansas Tech University, USA. E-mail:  \n[wilson.gonzalezespad@mail.atu.edu](wilson.gonzalezespad@mail.atu.edu)  \nAbstract: Because of their visual, attractive, often-humorous perspective, and overall appeal, cartoons and comic strips have been used for many decades in the classroom, especially as pedagogical tolls in language and social studies classes. However, cartoons and comic strips can be used as effectively in the physical science classroom . The purpose of this paper is to familiarize physical science teachers with an innovative teaching strategy for high school and college science students involving the design and creation of scientifically accurate comic strips. Scientifically accurate comic strips are an original, student-generated sequence of cartoon panels that correctly present a scientific idea or principle, either directly or indirectly, in a humorous or reflective way. This approach departs significantly from most of the literature on cartoons and comic strips as educational aides in that already made cartoons are not used. A literaturebased rationale for its use, feedback from students, and assessment criteria will be discussed.  \nKeywords: teaching strategies, comic strips, cartoons, science misconceptions, scientifically accurate comic strips.  \nIntroduction  \nHuman beings receive information from their surroundings mostly through sight. Colors, textures, and patterns are highly attractive to most students. The use of images in education has a number of important functions, including motivation, attention, exploration, presentation of content, organization, explanation, corroboration, emphasis, aesthetics, and recreation (Medina, 1992) . Example of the use of images for all of the previous functions are known as cartoons and comic strips, considered by some as one of the greatest reflector’s of the nation’s culture.  \nBecause of their visual, attractive, often-humorous perspective, and overall appeal, cartoons and comic strips have been used for many decades in the classroom . Effective cartoons and comic strips are amazingly simple, usually with a single message and organized display that is easy to read and remember. For students, they might be more understandable than a newspaper article or a book.  \nHistorically, some educators have considered comic strips as educationally unsound and as examples of character stereotyping, inferior and idiomatic writing, and weak plot structure (Thomas, 1983) . However, the combination of the students’ familiarity and acceptance of them, along  \nwith careful pedagogical integration, makes of this resource an excellent and refreshing complement to instruction.  \nIn most instances, teachers draw their own cartoons, or use alreadymade cartoons and comic strips for a variety of purposes: to introduce a lesson, to emphasize a concept, as a closing activity or as special projects, just to mention a few. A less common use of this strategy is when students do research on a topic to draw their own cartoons, or when students create a story and use drawings to illustrate it.  \nThe purpose of this paper is to familiarize teachers with the use of cartoons and comic strips as a pedagogical resource, with particular emphasis on the physical sciences. An innovative class project where students research and draw self-generated and scientifically accurate comic strips will be described.  \nCartoons and comic strips: a formal definition  \nAccording to The American Heritage Dictionary (2000), a cartoon is “a drawing depicting a humorous situation, often accompanied by a caption”. A cartoon is, most of the time, a single drawing, as opposed to a comic strip, which is defined by the same source as “An usually humorous narrative sequence of cartoon panels”. 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