6 Anime to Keep Kids Learning Over Summer By Terra Necessary, PCC Instructor Summer vacation makes it easy to sprawl out, throw on an anime, and let the day melt away. Binge-watching is an…
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Quarantine Cosplay: Upping Your Costume Game at Home
Quarantine Cosplay: Upping Your Costume Game at Home By Katherine Scott, PCC Instructor If you’re anything like me, all this time in quarantine means new books, movies, television shows, and developing new skills. I never…
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The Best Tools to Create Your Own Comic
By Dion Harris, Pop Culture Classroom Instructor There are so many reasons to create your own comics – career aspirations, social and emotional learning, literacy building, the love of art and storytelling. And there’s even…
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Children’s Comic Contest
Children’s Comic Contest Pop Culture Classroom is proud to launch our fourth comic book contest for kids! Calling all parents, educators, and comic book fans! Pop Culture Classroom is launching our fourth comic book contest…
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Pop Culture Classroom Launches Fun, New Distance Learning Page
(Denver, April 24, 2020) — Pop Culture Classroom, the Colorado-based educational non-profit and community group behind Denver Pop Culture Con, today launched a new, resource-rich webpage dedicated to distance learning. “So many of us engage…
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How Dungeons and Dragons Can Slay Isolation and Educate
By Faith Ojebuoboh, Pop Culture Classroom Instructor Dungeons and Dragons isn’t just a game — it also helps develop educational and social skills! Using probability to think about the chances by sneaking around a fire-breathing…
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Kids Stuck at Home? Pop Culture Classroom Has Free Comics, Lesson Plans, and More.
(Denver, CO) — As schools and libraries close across the US, Pop Culture Classroom is working to help provide educational content for students in the face of uncertainty over class scheduling. In addition to the…
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Family Fun at Denver Pop Culture Con — and It’s Affordable!
Denver Pop Culture Con 2020 is the place to be for affordable family fun this July 4 weekend. Pop Culture Con a centerpiece of part of our education and community-building work here at Pop Culture…
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Classroom Review of Raina Telgemeier’s Guts
By Madison Greenly Guts, Raina Telgemeier’s highly anticipated graphic novel and companion to Smile and Sisters, was recently released on September 17th. Based on a true story and geared towards an adolescent audience, Guts features…
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Five Ways Fan Fiction Can Help Your Classroom
By Madison Greenly Fanfiction, or fan-created stories based on books, movies, TV, etc., has become increasingly popular on the internet. Creators use it to explore new media, share ideas, and connect with stories on a…
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Using the Incredible Hulk to Teach Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
What makes a monster? This topic was part of 19th century Gothic fiction when Robert Louis Stevenson put pen to paper, but if you ask a fan of Marvel Comics, they may instead respond, “gamma…
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No Support – Now What?: Where to Turn and What to Do in the Face of a Less-Than-Supportive School Administration
In the spring of 2016, I had the opportunity to draft and present to my school district a class focused on the use of the Comics medium in the instruction and application of literary theory. …
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Teaching Disability Awareness With Disabled Comic Book Characters
One of the great things about school is that, just as students learn about different subjects, they also encounter different types of people from different walks of life. That being said, not every student has…
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Comics to Catwalks: Bridging High School Theatre and Pop Culture
When I started teaching at Temecula Valley High School in 2009, I was as new to the field as I could be. I’d scarcely had my teaching credential authorized before a position became available in…