Pokemon is a famous Japanese video game coming from two Japanese words “poketto” and “monsut” meaning “pocket monster” featuring cartoon monsters captured by players and trained to battle. Being a video game and a cartoon, Pokemon is classified as fiction, a product of human imagination. But the pocket monsters or simply called as “Pokemons” show concept in Science that is a little bit of boring to some and using them can be highly engaging and catchy among students as millennials can connect to video games like Pokemon Go released on 2016 where players can actually search and catch pokemon virtually using a real location.

            Pokemons that are captured are kept and trained to fight and after some battles they are going to evolve. Therefore, Pokemons are useful in introducing or studying the main points in evolution in a manner more understandable, enjoyable and creative among students. For example, as a pokemon evolves its power increases and more abilities come out like human evolution from Homo erectus and Homo habilis to Homo sapiens to Homo sapiens sapiens in which our kind is highly capable to do a lot of things than our ancient ancestors. The degree of evolution in different aspects has something to do to what kind of pokemon it is which results from the nature where it comes from or the exact components it is made of like animals’ evolution can be determined how it responds to its nature in order to survive. Just like the evolution of pokemon from simple to complex monsters like bulbasaur turning to ivysaur turning to venusaur the present groups of animals are the highest forms of once simple forms appear on earth.

            Somehow, using videogames can be used to develop critical thinking skills if used wisely in teaching.

By: Ms. Ana Rosette S. Garcia | Jose Rizal Institute