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…
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How Harry Potter Can Help Teach About the Salem Witch Trials
The Harry Potter books are all about a society of witches and wizards who inhabit a world adjacent to ours, and yet deliberately, wholly separate. That’s why it’s such a shock to Harry Potter when…
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Superpower your weekend with Rocky Mountain PBS at the 2019 PCC Kids’ Lab!
Please help us welcome first-time Kids’ Lab exhibitor Rocky Mountain PBS into the Pop Culture Classroom Kids’ Laboratory for 2019! Swing by their booth throughout the DPCC weekend to take a picture with Word Girl…
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Katie’s Korner: Graphic Novel Reviews for Schools and Libraries
Gender Queer: A MemoirPublished by: Lion ForgeWritten by: Maia KobabeIllustrated by: Maia KobabeColors by: Phoebe KobabeISBN: 9781549304002Ages: 13+ Review “Having a nonbinary or trans teacher in junior high would have meant the world to me.”…
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Submit, Submit, Submit! Or, Why You Should Submit to the 2019 EGL Awards Program.
All of us at Pop Culture Classroom (PCC) are so excited to be celebrating a new year and the 2nd annual Excellence in Graphic Literature (EGL) Awards! Submissions are open NOW through February 15, 2019,…
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The Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards 2018 Winners
Sitting on stage as part of the Excellence in Graphic Literature (EGL) Awards ceremony last year, I experienced a lot of different emotions. On the one hand, I was really excited by all the energy…