Curriculum Unit
Jennifer Frasher
Drawing to Learn – Engaging the Brain
Author
KEY LEARNING, ENDURING UNDERSTANDING, ETC.
Mindfulness practices during sustained attention tasks can increase comprehension and retention of information. Drawing as a mindful practice utilizes multiple modalities which activates the brain. Visual Data and Storytelling enhances students’ ability to integrate knowledge and ideas.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S) for the UNIT
How can drawing be used to improve attention and assist integration of knowledge, processes, and ideas..
CONCEPT A CONCEPT B CONCEPT C
Mindfulness Drawing
Visual Storytelling
Visual Data
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS A ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS B ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS C
How can we utilize drawing to self-regulate our attention to learning activities?
How can we build our visual vocabulary and formatting to better process and explain knowledge and ideas?
How can we create and use visuals to record, comprehend and explain data?
VOCABULARY A VOCABULARY B VOCABULARY C
Mindfulness
Appropriate Fidgets
Sustained Attention
Automaticity
Self’-regulation
Visual imagery
Icon
Symbol
Data
Key
Visual vocabulary
Visual dictionary
Sketchnote
Graphics
Illustrations/Cartoons/Comics
Graphic Novels
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/MATERIAL/TEXT/FILM/RESOURCES
Online tutorials for mindfulness practices
Online drawing tutorials
Online sketchnote tutorials
Sharing forums and groups for visual data and storytelling
Graphic novels from other cultures that follow different sequencing (ex. Japenese comics read right to left)
History of comics and graphic novels