What is the CCP Module?
The CCP Module is a generalization of the comic project. While the sessions and workshops are focused on teaching kids how to write comics, the modules are designed to bring comics into other environments, such as health education and math. Modules use many of the same templates as the sessions and workshops, but the emphasis is less on the comics themselves and more on encouraging students to write about various topics and concepts. • Who has participated in the CCP Module? The first basic test run of the module was used at the University of Pittsburgh with a class of 80-some graduate students. The test run was an experiment to see if, by comparing before and after comics, whether a change in a student’s knowledge of a topic could be determined. The results were positive: it was possible to tell that knowledge had been gained. The intended audience for the CCP Module are elementary (3-6) and secondary (7 – 12) school students. The CCP Module was used with 200 students from Northview E
