Community Engagement & Impact

Poster

P08 - Using Digital Comics to Engage Children in Science Skills

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In 1999, New York City experienced an unforeseen pandemic of West Nile Virus that caused elderly people to sicken and die, crows to fall from the skies, and exotic birds at the Bronx Zoo to perish. The experience revealed lapses in our defenses from zoonotic diseases. In this fictionalized account, three middle school children seek explanation for the death of birds in their neighborhood by engaging a veterinary pathologist who is trying to discover why exotic birds and crows are dying at her zoo.

Learning Objectives:

• Define how digital comic books can engage children in inquiry skills important in science.
• Describe how an interactive digital comic book can increase students’ understanding of zoonotic disease pattern and why we are susceptible to diseases from animals that do not look like us.
• Conduct a research program to assess the effectiveness of a digital comic book on developing inquiry skills in science.

Poster Presenter(s)

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  Wren Thompson

  Research Associate
  New York Hall of Science

Poster Presenter / Co-Author(s)

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  Martin Weiss

  Senior Scientist
  New York Hall of Science
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  Laycca Umer

  Researcher/Coordinator
  New York Hall of Science