Pop Culture Classroom

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PCC SEL Roleplaying Workshop - STEM Launch, Thornton, CO

Colorful history #72.; The History of Halloween

Using Tabletop Role-Playing Games for Social Emotional Learning

Pop Culture Classroom has piloted a new workshop on building character — and characters! — using Dungeons & Dragons™.

Colorado Gives

Give a Buck - Support Pop Culture Classroom

Give a Buck - Support Pop Culture Classroom

Donate to Pop Culture Classroom for Colorado Gives Day

Colorado Gives Day is Tuesday, December 6. Give where you live and help inspire, educate, and connect Colorado kids using the comics, games, and the pop culture they love.

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Colorful History #71: Sal Castro & The East L.A. Walkouts

The story of U.S. history is one of the country’s people — and the efforts of those people to advance opportunity and equity for a better life. In Sal Castro & The East L.A. Walkouts, students can explore issues of fairness, cultural identity, and activism.

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Boulder Students Design Board Games

Have you ever wanted to create your own board game? Kids attending Pop Culture Classroom’s Summer Game On! Camp at the Museum of Boulder did just that.

Matt Hess

Matt Hess, Pop Culture Classroom Executive Director

Pop Culture Classroom Announces New Executive Director

The Board of Directors and Staff for Pop Culture Classroom is excited to announce our new Executive Director, Matt Hess.

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Pop Culture Classroom’s mission is to inspire a love of learning, increase literacy, celebrate diversity and build community through the tools of popular culture and the power of self-expression. Join us for free comics, curriculum, teaching guides, event updates, and more!

Curricular Units

Game On!

Offer students the chance to play, analyze, and create their very own tabletop games. After discussing how game components work together, students are asked to create a tabletop game of their own centered around a topic of the teacher’s choosing.

Storytelling Through Comics

Explore age-appropriate comic literature with the goals of igniting a love of learning and increasing literacy by using pop culture as an educational tool. Teach your students how to make quality comics of their own!

Popular Resources

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For Students & Families

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From the PCC Blog

The Classroom Blog: Diversity Comics

5 Comics For Teaching Diversity

There’s never been a stronger demand for diverse characters than now, and the comic book industry seems to be listening and responding in kind, giving readers the chance to see themselves and their personal experiences reflected in the pages of their favorite (or soon-to-be favorite) comic book.

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