Current K-12 and undergraduate students have grown up with constant exposure to visual
popular culture (eg, movies, TV programs, graphic novels, etc.). Because youth find pop
culture references in the classroom to be engaging, many science and engineering
instructors have shown that examples found in visual pop culture can be used to teach
science and engineering concepts. One recent study on the efficacy of using pop culture for
instruction found that high school students learning from graphic-novel style comics …