Teaching writing is more than stringing together words. Stories have a structure. Good stories have a beginning, middle, and end. Great stories teach us something about life and ourselves. Timeless stories; those that affect generations…
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How Can I Get My Kids Started Making Their Own Comics?
Visual literacy—the ability to interpret and create visual images—is an important 21st century skill. Kids are exposed to imagery from the internet, video games, television, film, and advertisements every day, and it is important that…
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Librarians: Use Comics To Connect With Young Readers!
In the 1930’s, when American comics first made the jump from newspaper strips to comic books, they were a smash success with young readers. The synthesis of images and text in a juxtaposed narrative was…
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Using Comics to Teach Math!
Teaching math is an art. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. I’ve been doing it for 31 years, and I’m here to tell you that if you’re in front of a classroom in…
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3 Ways to Use Comics & Superhero Movies to Teach Science
By bringing pop culture into our classrooms as educators, we’re all trying to do the same thing – increase student engagement. But there’s another “e” that we need to be worried about as well: empowerment.…
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The Bechdel Test: Why It’s Important For Students
Representation matters! It’s more than just a hashtag—it’s a fact. When children (and adults) fail to see characters who remind them of themselves represented in the media they consume, they often feel unimportant or invisible,…
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Why You Should Read Comics With Your Students
If you haven’t already figured it out, this blog is a place for teachers to explore new and innovative ideas about teaching with texts that they might, otherwise, not consider “academic” in a traditional sense.…
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Introducing The Greatest Team Ever!
At Denver Pop Culture Con 2018, we premiered the first issue of our new comic book, which features short stories geared toward children 6 and up! The Greatest Team Ever is about a group of…
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Our Top 5 Resources for Educators
One of the highlights of attending the educational panels at C2E2 this year was watching my friend Adam interview famed horror author, R.L. Stine. The interview, some of which you can watch here, showed Mr.…
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Muggles Assemble! Scholastic Brings Magical Experiences to the PCC Kids’ Lab in 2018!
What’s your favorite Harry Potter book? Do you remember what it felt like when you first read it? Well, at Denver Pop Culture Con this year, Scholastic is hoping to help you feel that magic…
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The Force is with Corellian Droidworks at the 2018 PCC Kids’ Lab!
Join Corellian Droidworks in the Pop Culture Classsroom Kids’ Laboratory this year to learn what goes into creating these real-life technologies from a galaxy far, far away! What’s Corellian Droidworks? A local Star Wars fan…
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The PCC Kids’ Lab Blasts into 2018 with Activities Galore!
Another exciting feature of our 2018 Pop Culture Classroom Kids’ Laboratory are our fun-filled Activity Areas, the STEAM Lab and the Crafts and Experiments Zone. We are so excited to bring these areas back into…
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The PCC Kids’ Lab Returns to 2018 With Its Best Stage Lineup Ever!
The Pop Culture Classroom Kids’ Lab at Denver Pop Culture Con is beyond excited to host another year of wonderful panels all weekend long! This year’s panel lineup is jam-packed with all sorts of amazing…
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Announcing the 2018 Kids Comics Contest Winners!
We at Pop Culture Classroom are excited to announce the winners of our Kids’ Comics Contest 2018! Every year, we host a Comics Contest to highlight the talent and work of young artists in the…