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Offline cephas

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« on: January 21, 2014, 05:02:05 PM »
I tried searching the forums for Pokemon lessons, but had no luck. All I saw were bomb game/pass the ball templates.

Does anyone remember or have a specific post saved away? Or has anyone done lessons revolving around Pokemon?

I want to try teaching around Pokemon for a week or two when my students come back in February.

So far, I have a list of the 150 original Pokemon made up. Basically just copied and pasted. I'm going to let them pick any Pokemon from that list, and they'll design a sheet (still thinking about the details for this) that'll say something like "I choose you, ____!" (name of Pokemon they chose) at the top, and they'll draw the Pokemon and write out the element and select four moves for it. The majority of the Pokemon names have some teachable English in them, but how I'll work with that is TBD.

I want the students to do the picking because I'm hoping that will engage them more and make them more willing to put some effort into the coloring and crafts bits of the lesson. (They'll make these http://kidura.deviantart.com/art/PPMN-1-19-Charmander-IV-H3-255967231 week two).

Ideas?
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MAH POKEMANS, LET ME SHOW THEM TO YOU!!!!
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2014, 09:06:22 AM »
not sure the age of your kiddie kids, but a few years back I did a lesson with some all boys MS.

first we talked about all the different elements represented in the pokemon universe. they were able to do this easily.

then we talked about individual pokemans popular at the time. and what animal + element they make up. So pikachu would be lightning and a mouse. Ponyta/Rapisdash would be fire and a horse/pony.

Then we talked about their names. At the time the 3 main starters were some fire pig, an otter, and a plant snake called snivy. so snivy is a combination of snake and ivy, and servine is serpant and vine, serperior in a play on superior/ or serpant and emperor.

I showed them a few pokemans and asked what they thought their name might be. like the heart pokeman and the chandelier pokeman and the cherry pokeman.

theeeeeen I let them make their own. I started with an example of mine, which was hell kitty or hell O Kitty and I used this classic image.



and then made 4 powers. the students then did the same and came up with some really amazing stuff.

all in all it easily made up the entire 45 minutes, and even though they were MS boys, they loved the lesson. I'd provide my ppt but it was so long ago its no where near the amazing quality I only allow my self to provide.  8)

pro-tips: you said you are using the original 150. There is a very good chance your students have never seen or heard of most of those aside from pikachu.

let the kids teach you some korean and why the pokemons are named that way. aside from pikachu almost all the pokemon are named differently in korean, but just like English its usually a combination of words.

have fun broski
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Offline cephas

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Re: Pokemon
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2014, 10:58:29 AM »
Quote from: Wintermute on January 22, 2014, 09:06:22 AM
pro-tips: you said you are using the original 150. There is a very good chance your students have never seen or heard of most of those aside from pikachu.

Thanks for the tip. That makes sense. The only thing is that I looked at the names of the newer Pokemon, and they just don't have as clear cut of English names. It seems to me like most of the original 150 have names that can easily be broken into two parts, both English words. The new Pokemon get a little more tricky, I think. More of their names I can't break into two English words - maybe being not as familiar with the new Pokemon is causing me that trouble (I know the original 150 pretty well).

I like the idea to design your own Pokemon. I was planning on doing something just like that - I think we're on the same wavelength for this lesson, except I want to stretch it out for at least 1 week : )
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Re: Pokemon
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2014, 07:06:12 PM »
You could always let them use the Pokemon Fusion generator (http://pokemon.alexonsager.net/) to create combinations using the original 150 and have them come up with charactarestics and move sets for their creation. Also, you can have them create their own trading cards and maybe do a 2-on-2 battle type game.
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Re: Pokemon
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2014, 10:40:45 AM »
Quote from: U-One on January 23, 2014, 07:06:12 PM
You could always let them use the Pokemon Fusion generator (http://pokemon.alexonsager.net/) to create combinations using the original 150 and have them come up with charactarestics and move sets for their creation. Also, you can have them create their own trading cards and maybe do a 2-on-2 battle type game.

The fusion generator is awesome. I'll definitely use that near the end of the unit, once they've figured out that the Pokemon names typically have a two-part meaning.

I like the card idea, but I was already planning to have them do something similar - designing a battle screen, which would involve selecting moves, level, element, etc. However...the cards would be more interactive because then they play with them and practice speaking.

So...two awesome ideas. Thanks!

Would it be feasible to play a 2 v 2 game? I've never played the card game before.
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