Posts on “ 2009 March ”

Sean D’Abbraccio just posted a helpful flipchart on Promethean Planet. He uses the BrainPOP characters from the BrainPOP Resource Pack to help review test prep strategies. Description: This flipchart uses the BrainPOP characters to give students tips for the grade 3 MCAS reading test. It could also be used for any standardized reading comprehension test… Read the Rest»

As part of Women’s History Month, a new holiday called Ada Lovelace Day is being celebrated on March 24th. Lovelace, a contemporary of the inventor Charles Babbage, is often credited as being the world’s first computer programmer! If you have a classroom blog, why not have your students write and publish a post about an inspiring woman in the… Read the Rest»

BrainPOP is supporting the San Diego Science Festival 2009 with some fantastic online resources on KidZone, a fun resource for budding scientists!  Explore educational animated movies, experiments, quizzes, comics, and interactive activities! You’ll also find some special promotions for a limited time.  For complete information on the festival, visit SDScienceFestival.org.

Giving a workshop on BrainPOP or BrainPOP Jr? We are happy to offer free professional development materials, including presentation outlines, handouts, and more. Anything else you’d like to see here? Please post suggestions below!

How amazing is this? Arlington, Virginia 2nd Grade Teacher, Ms. Schneider, invites her students to follow along via her blog and videoconferencing as she treks to the Arctic’s Edge to research climate change. She used BrainPOP to build students’ background knowledge. We’re thrilled to be included in this adventure and encourage you to check out… Read the Rest»

BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. value the input of our advisors, who review our content and works closely with our writers and animators to create a fun and educational resource. We are currently looking for K-3 teachers specializing in Social Studies and Health for BrainPOP Jr., and Math and Physical Science for BrainPOP. If you are… Read the Rest»

BrainPOP Educators is running a poll this month! Vote now on which notable woman BrainPOP should make a movie on next! It’s fun checking on the results and reading comments! Keep ‘em coming! We will announce the results at the end of the month. How are you using BrainPOP’s Spotlight on Women’s History? Please post… Read the Rest»

Covering topics from jazz, country, and Latin music to Elvis Presley, Louis Armstrong, and Beethoven, BrainPOP’s Spotlight: Music sounds like a great idea! The Spotlight’s featured quiz and free topic is 60s folk music, while BrainPOP Educators offers a lesson plan on writing folk songs. For the K-3 set, there’s BrainPOP Jr.’s Sound movie.

BrainPOP honors Women’s History Month with Spotlight: Women’s History, dedicated to feminism, suffrage, and famous females like Frida Kahlo, Helen Keller, Judy Blume, Marie Curie, Pocahontas, and many others. Check out a featured quiz and free topic on Jane Goodall! BrainPOP Educators wants to know what YOU think. In support of Women’s History Month, we’re… Read the Rest»

Rarely do we have a group of students that don’t require differentiating instruction to some degree. I’ve been collecting ideas on how easy it is to differentiate using BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. over the past few months. Here are some to play around with! *Use the Hard/Easy Quiz options in BrainPOP Jr.  Students can work… Read the Rest»