NASA-POKÉMON TRADING CARD GAME PARTNERSHIP BRINGING 'ENERGY' TO EDUCATION

NASA's Center for Distance Learning is unearthing the fun in science – this time exploring conservation in its second collaboration with the Pokémon Trading Card Game. The program incorporates science, technology engineering and mathematics (STEM) into activity units for K-6 students and also helps to increase students understanding of how the Earth functions as a system and how NASA research is protecting the Earth's air, land, and water resources.

Posted on NASA's Kids Science News Network (KSNN) website, interactive activities are accessible to students and teachers in the classroom. They can learn the real science behind the Pokémon Trading Card Game: EX Emerald and use free activities developed by NASA that teach them about issues and event, including climate change, the ozone layer, remote sensing, rains, floods and tides.

In EX Emerald, Pokémon representing earth, air and water engage in epic battles and redistribute the balance of power in their universe. NASA's missions collect data that tell us more about the composition, behavior and quality of the air we breathe; about the movement of the Earth's crust and its surface composition; and about the global water cycle.

For more information on the NASA and Pokémon Trading Card Game collaboration, visit NASA's Kids Science News Network: http://ksnn.larc.nasa.gov/pokemon

For more information on NASA's Center for Distance Learning programs, visit: http://dlcenter.larc.nasa.gov