Learning with Pokemon

July 15, 2016 by Sarah White 1 Comment

Does it seem like everyone around you is obsessed with Pokemon Go? If your kids are into it, or the original Pokemon, why not add a Pokemon spin to their learning with Pokemon lesson plans?

Mathematical Thinking used Pokemon characters to work on math skills through buying characters or building a Pokemon deck. So smart (and the printables are on her site).

You’d have to do some more research, but there’s a picture at Funky Junk comparing Pokemon characters to real animals and plants. It might be fun to study the “real Pokemon” in a nature unit.

Homeschooling Mommy Bot had some ideas for a Pokemon unit study, but she never produced the ebook she had planned for it (kids move on to new things so quickly). Still, her ideas are good ones you could research yourself or have your kids study. There are a couple more ideas for Pokemon learning games having to do with math and writing at Game Informer. Or have kids make their own Pokemon cards, like the kids at the Shards did.

If you have a group of kids to work with, this Poekmon game from Education World will get them moving and doing math.

These are just for inspiration unless you have your own printables to share, but there are some great ideas at ESL Printables for adding Pokemon to lessons about reading, colors and the parts of the body. Some of them would be pretty easy to re-create with some images from the internet or by taking pictures of character cards.

And if you’re willing to pay a little for some Pokemon-related learning, there are some great products at Teachers Pay Teachers, too. Lots of math, of course, but also writing, science, ice breakers and bulletin board ideas. You could do a whole Pokemon classroom!

Have you ever done any learning with Pokemon? I’d love to hear about it.

[Photo via Funky Junk.]

Check out these Pokemon Activity books.

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Kerrie McLoughlin says
January 24, 2022 at 1:12 pm
Thanks for the mention! I’m finally back in the blogging-about-homeschooling game again, and I updated that post. Never had time to do it myself (I was writing other books!), but I found a great Teachable course, which I’m hoping to try out and write about with my 12 yo son.

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Celebrate Inventor’s Day by Learning about Inventors

Several countries have a day set aside to honor and recognize their inventors, but Nov. 9 is a special one that’s known as Tag der Erfinder in German. It’s celebrated in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and it falls on Nov. 9 because that’s the birthday of Hedy Lamarr.

Hedy Lamarr is widely known as an actress but there’s a lot more to her story. You can get a little of it geared to little kids in the Little People, Big Dreams book Hedy Lamarr (32 pages, hardcover, published 2023 by Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, suggested retail price $15.99).

The book explores her birth in Austria and how she spent time when she was young coming up with inventions. She became an actress, married an arms dealer, made her escape to America and became an actress again.

But she also helped develop a frequency-hopping signal device for airplanes that was used by the Americans and their allies during World War II. That technology became the basis for wireless technology such as wifi and GPS.

While Inventor’s Day is a great time to learn about Hedy Lamarr, you can take this opportunity to check out books and do little studies on lots of different inventors. If there’s an inventor or an invention your child is particularly interested in, that’s a great place to start. It’s fun to think about all the things we use every day that didn’t always exist; someone had to invent them!

For a start here at Craft Gossip you can learn more about Garrett Morgan, who invented traffic lights; Maria Oroso, who developed a clay oven that could cook food without electricity; and more female inventors and scientists.

And for more general inventors’ fun, check out this inventors word search from Fun Findery (and another from Let’s Do Puzzles) or take a quiz on inventors and their inventions from Flanders Family Home Life.

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