Buoyancy Comic & Doodle Notes

This is not your traditional sink or float worksheet! This print-and-go buoyancy comic will grab their attention and make it EASY for you to teach science. Tackle buoyancy, density, and displacement with eye-catching content, doodle notes, coloring sheets, and extension worksheets.

Ideal for struggling readers, English language learners (ESL, ELL), checked-out students, graphic novel lovers, and everyone in between! Comics deliver the information in an engaging format that makes reading science FUN and ACCESSIBLE.

Recharge your physical science lessons with a teaching tool that INCREASES RETENTION using RELATABLE examples and illustrations. Your physical science students are going to LOVE this new approach to learning.

Overview

The one-page content comic covers the concept of buoyancy using comical examples and diagrams. Students will read about displacement and density and learn how it relates to an object’s ability to float. From rubber duckies to steel beams, and boats to wrenches, this teaching resource pairs content with relatable examples. Archimedes might even pop his head in a few times to clarify a principle.

What do you get?

Color Content Comic

• Print-and-Go!
• One-page, infographic-style comic delivering the concept of buoyancy, density, and displacement
• Printable in multiple sizes making it easy to double as a science anchor chart
• Illustrates how density and displacement relate to an object’s ability to sink or float

Black-line Version

• Easy to print
• Fun science coloring sheets

Doodle Notes Activity

• Students fill in the blanks
• Doubles as a guided reading worksheet
• Keeps learners engaged while you teach or
• Serves as a good homework option
• A great addition to interactive science notebooks

Follow-up Worksheet

• Designed to stimulate deeper thinking and application of understanding
• Assess student comprehension
• A good homework option
• Reinforces the concepts

Easel Activities

• Seamlessly shift to your virtual classroom
• Both supplementals are formatted in the Easel format
• Great for sub-plans or make-up work

Answer Keys

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What makes Cool School Comics such an impactful learning tool?

They are FUN! 

• This is the most crucial benefit.
• Students are more willing to participate and more engaged.
• The content STICKS.

Visual learning is EFFECTIVE. 

• About 65% of the population consists of visual learners.
• Visual information is processed faster.
• Students who SEE information are more likely to retain it.

EASY to implement! 

• These lesson plans are complete and ready to go, requiring minimal prep time.
• You only need to make copies, upload supplementals to your virtual classrooms, and set up the hands-on activities.
• Lots of flexibility! You can print these as posters, add them to interactive notebooks, hand them out to students, or share them virtually. There is plenty of room for modifications.

ACTIVE LEARNING

• Every lesson plan has a low-prep, wallet-friendly, hands-on component.
• Instructions are in a visual format
• Follow-up questions or a lab report are always included

Comics make content ACCESSIBLE

• Naturally differentiated, comics accommodate a wide range of learning abilities and styles.
• Great for classrooms with a diverse population of learners
• They can simultaneously rope in both your gifted and struggling students (and everyone in between).
• Reluctant readers gravitate toward comics.
• Comics help English Language Learners (ESL, ELL) and some SPED students find success.

Be the hip teacher seizing the graphic novels craze. Your students will LOVE it!

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