Our solution is a large, multi-chapter digital comic titled “Blue Guardians: Where the Ocean Meets the Heart.” It blends storytelling, AR/VR immersion, and socio-emotional learning to help students experientially understand Blue Citizenship. The comic employs vivid characters, emotional dialogue, and underwater adventures to convey complex environmental issues, including pollution, coral bleaching, climate change, and overfishing. The story is supplemented with two interactive AR/VR “deep dive” experiences that allow learners to virtually explore the ocean world and encounter a plastic monster created by human waste. Through these immersive experiences, students not only learn scientific concepts but also develop empathy, responsibility, reflection, and skills in collective action. 

Teachers receive a complete learning kit containing reflection prompts, discussion questions, and activity tasks so the story becomes a full learning journey. Our implementation plan includes creating the storyboard, designing the comic chapters, building AR/VR modules, and integrating everything into one interactive experience accessible to all learners. The final product aims to make environmental education less theoretical and more emotionally engaging, creative, and action-oriented.