TEACHER ONLY · COMICS 4

Hero Logo Design

Outcome: Students complete Page 3 with three thumbnail sketches, one final emblem, one to three purposeful colors, and short explanations of one symbol and one color choice.

Teaching focus: Keep students focused on the logo: What do its symbol and colors tell us about this hero? Students need three sketches, one final emblem, and short explanations. They do not need to write a separate brand-promise statement. If you teach the optional Animation unit, students will build on this work later.

Before class

Download the Hero Logo Design PowerPoint · Make a Google copy. Confirm the Page 3 teacher model appears on Slides 10 and 16. Image sources and reuse notes are recorded in the speaker notes.
Have student comics, pencils, erasers, and coloring supplies ready.
The Gabrielle Jordan video and Edpuzzle are optional enrichment. This lesson does not depend on either one.

Optional entrepreneurship video

Lesson 4 works without this video. If you want an entrepreneurship example, use the original Gabrielle Jordan Williams TEDx video.

For embedded questions or Live Mode, copy the reusable Edpuzzle to My Content. Then create a new Canvas assignment, choose External Tool, select Edpuzzle, choose the copied video, save, and test it in Student View. Edpuzzle does not support reusing, cloning, or importing a previous Canvas-linked class or assignment.

Use Edpuzzle's current Canvas setup steps. If you want to project the questions while students answer on their own devices, use Live Mode after you assign the copied lesson to your class.

One-period route

5 minutes: Bellringer. Students use the trait bank and evidence stem to read familiar logos.
10 minutes: Teach symbol + color = one quick message. Compare familiar hero emblems.
7 minutes: Model simple, readable, and meaningful. Show the authentic Page 3 exemplar.
20 to 25 minutes: Students sketch three ideas, run the one-inch and five-second tests, then complete the final logo and explanations.
5 minutes: Lightning share or exit ticket.

Leave this up during work time

Slide 16 is the independent-work screen. It keeps the task, success criteria, rubric focus, sentence stem, next step, and authentic exemplar visible without prescribing a timer, voice level, or movement routine.

What to look for

Simplicity: a viewer can quickly understand what the mark shows.
Versatility: the mark stays recognizable when it is small or large.
Relevance: the symbol and one to three meaningful colors connect to the hero's trait, purpose, power, gadget, or user need.

Do not grade drawing skill. Score whether students made and explained clear design decisions.

Language support

Keep the visible banks and stems available. Ask partners to name the message before the designer explains it: “I see _____ because the logo uses _____.” Students may discuss ideas in their stronger language before writing the short explanation.