Hands-on, Dissolving Candy Corn FUN!

Looking for an engaging and easy-to-use version of the classic dissolving candy corn experiment? Try this comic-style, hands-on Halloween science lab! With instructions delivered in s avisual format, your learners will eagerly engage in the process and excitement.

Crafted to engage your most challenging learners, this experiment enables students to practice making predictions and observations by examining the affects different liquids have on these sugary fall favorites.

How it Works

The visual instructions will guide your learners through the process of setting up the experiment, making predictions, and recording observations. The comic-style makes it easy for struggling readers, English language learers (ESL, ELL), graphic novel lovers, and everyone in between to engage. This makes this teaching resource EASY-TO-USE and ENGAGING to most of the learners in your classroom.

What do you get?

Visual Instructions

• Comic-style instructions illustrate the steps
• Illustrations help bridge language and reading barriers
• Even reluctant readers will FINALLY READ the DIRECTIONS!
• Color and black-line versions
• Blackline instructions double as a candy corn coloring page

Experiment Results Pages

• Two versions enabling easy differentiation
• Version One asks students to sketch predictions and observations
• Version Two prompts learners to sketch and explain their observations and predictions

More to come with this product!

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.

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 and ELL) and some SPED students find success.