St. Pölten UAS: Explaining Science with Comics - Natural Sciences Made Understandable for Students and School Pupils

New Didactic Format
Comixplain has developed a new didactic format that uses comics to introduce students to content from the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, mathematics).

"To do this, we focused mainly on teaching units where students are known to struggle with the content or where abstract concepts are supposed to be communicated. Comics can be helpful as supporting teaching material in these cases", says Oliveira. The content for the comics was developed by students and teachers together.

Instructions Available for School Teachers
At the end, the teams wrote instructions for how to use and where to apply the comics. All results and materials are available online free of charge at https://fhstp.github.io/comixplain. School teachers are free to use them in class as well.

Next Step: Community Engagement
For their next step, Oliveira and his colleagues intend to create a community that will provide new comics, translations, and applications.

Part of the community's contributions is made up of Augmented Reality apps. They are available for download directly from the Comixplain offer at https://fhstp.github.io/comixplain/mediasummerschool.html.

Hundreds of Illustrations
The latest contribution is a brand new search interface that is supposed to help visitors search hundreds of illustrations by Comixplain made available free of charge. The search tool was developed by student Anna Blasinger and can be found at https://fhstp.github.io/comixplain/catalog.html.

Project Comixplain 
https://research.fhstp.ac.at/en/projects/comixplain

Media contact: Mark Hammer, +43 (0) 2742 313 228 - 269, [email protected] 

View original content:https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/st-polten-uas-explaining-science-with-comics---natural-sciences-made-understandable-for-students-and-school-pupils-302118182.html