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Wednesday, April 25 4:30PM ET: Venture into the Arctic with IMAX® and BrainPOP Celebrate Earth Awareness Month with IMAX and BrainPOP!  Joined by Shaun MacGillivray, filmmaker of the new IMAX® film To the Arctic, we’ll discuss the changing Arctic wilderness, its effect on the polar bear’s ability to thrive, and what you and your students can… Read the Rest»

If you can’t make it to our IMAX webinar tomorrow night, but you find yourself in upper Manhattan, please visit our friends at Teachers College Columbia University! Educational/Real-World Impact Games Festival: Featuring Scholar’s Quest and over a dozen educational game projects. Theme: Can YOU make a difference with games? Date: Wednesday, April 25 Location: 525… Read the Rest»

Guest Blogger Brian M. Adams teaches at Copeland Middle School in Rockaway, NJ. He is caretaker of historyknowledge.com. He is a certified nerd and has no relation to the Canadian rock star.   As a history teacher, review of civics is a must.  In searching for new means of doing so and trying to find… Read the Rest»

We’re celebrating Earth Awareness month with a new lesson plan contest!  BrainPOP has teamed up with Warner Bros. and IMAX® to help raise awareness about the changing Arctic wilderness. With the upcoming release of To The Arctic, a MacGillivray Freeman Film co-produced by Warner Bros. Pictures and IMAX Filmed Entertainment, we’re providing you a wide… Read the Rest»

April is a month of showers, flowers and season changing powers: with all this transition comes student questions!  Help them find the answers by checking out BrainPOP’s “Earth Awareness” spotlight page.  From glaciers to global warming, we have curated a wide variety of relevant topics that can help explain some pretty tricky concepts! We also feature… Read the Rest»

Game nights have been bringing people together for generations, and recently BrainPOP collaborated with our friends from YouPD to host our very own!  The evening included game play, of course, and presentations from NewVisions, the MIT Education Arcade and Global Kids, to more than 50 teachers, administrators, non-profits employees. First,  Scot Osterweil, Creative Director at… Read the Rest»

Networks are buzzing, lawyers have prepared arguments, and the political parties are anxious to know how the results will impact the November presidential election! Today marks the beginning of Supreme Court hearing regarding the constitutionality of the 2010 Affordable Care Act in the United States.  Are your students talking about it too?  Do you need to… Read the Rest»

We’re super excited about the slew of new games we’ve recently added to GameUp. We’re equally excited to hear what you think! We’ve got Crazy Plant Shop and You Make Me Sick! (Filament Games), Three math puzzles from Lure of the Labyrinth, plus Drop Zone; Square Off; Deep Sea Duel; and Primary Krypto, from our friends at NCTM! Please submit your feedback… Read the Rest»

Dr. Kari Stubbs, Vice President of 21st Century Learning, joined 100 people from 20 countries to celebrate the ten year anniversary of the Horizon Report at an alumnae board retreat last week. She represented BrainPOP on the board for the 2010 and 2011 K12 reports. With well over one million downloads and 27 translations in… Read the Rest»

Dr. Kari Stubbs, Vice President of 21st Century Learning at BrainPOP, recently returned from the REAL (Recommendations for Education and Advancement of Learning) Commission kickoff meeting in Washington, DC. The commission consists of 25 leaders in education technology from industry and academia. They have been charged with recommending an initial research and policy agenda for… Read the Rest»