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Make Your IWB Lessons POP Wednesday, October 5 4:30 PM EDT Duration: 1 Hour Using BrainPOP and an interactive whiteboard? Don’t miss this webinar designed with you in mind. Special guest Mike Jones, Life Science teacher and trainer, demonstrates the role of image capture in creating activities through the magic of “erase” and “reveal” techniques. You’ll… Read the Rest»

At BrainPOP we update the site with new movies, quizzes, games and teaching materials all the time.  To ensure that everything we release is of the highest quality, we call on our esteemed education advisors for their guidance and wisdom.  Today we welcome the newest member of our BrainPOP advisory board,  former Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at… Read the Rest»

BrainPOP Educator, Jenaya Shaw, is a teacher at B.B. Harris Elementary in Duluth, GA. Jenaya is passionate about incorporating hands-on differentiated activities into her daily instruction.  Jenaya’s website, The Lesson Plan Diva!, provides free resources and lesson ideas for teachers to use in the classroom. Imagine for a moment that you are a first grader… Read the Rest»

Several months ago, we found out that one of our favorite teachers, Michael Baer of the South Adams Schools in Berne, Indiana, was going to be in town. As BrainPOP’s physical science advisor for the past few years, Michael has been a valued member of the BrainPOP family, so we jumped at the chance to… Read the Rest»

  BrainPOP Educator, Sara Crawford, Ed. D., is an Instructional Technology Specialist in the Cartwright School District in Phoenix, Arizona. Check out her related lesson plan here! Educators seem to have an infinite amount of standards to teach with an extremely limited amount of time.  This limits the content being taught and the subjects that we… Read the Rest»

Chris Carter’s saga with BrainPOP ESL in Germany continues with week 7… Day Thirty The exercises in BrainPOP ESL Level 2 require more reading and more fill in the blank activities.  We have to help Moby accomplish a goal by choosing the correct word to complete a sentence.  Since not all my first graders can read… Read the Rest»

Christine Yarzabek’s first grade classroom is a technology integration playground where her students can frequently be found on the SmartBoard, performing research scavenger hunts on their computers, interviewing each other with Flip cameras or practicing for spelling tests on a host of different websites. You can visit her personal blog or follow her on twitter @CYarzy…. Read the Rest»

Chris Carter’s saga with BrainPOP ESL in Germany continues with week 6… Day Twenty Five What a day!  This morning started out with surprise treats brought in from one of my student’s parents to celebrate a birthday. Everyone filled their bellies with chocolate and other sweets, resulting in 20 kids on a serious sugar high… Read the Rest»

David Di Ianni’s guest blog post came just in time for today’s Featured Movie on Bicycle Safety! Learn about his love of creating BrainPOP-inspired movies with his students and check out their latest piece on the first bicycle! I am a teacher at The Children’s Institute in Verona, NJ. I have been working for three… Read the Rest»

Kids need to relate to real life experiences to learn and as a teacher I strive to make those connections when introducing new concepts. This week in math we are working on conversion; learning the basics of converting gallons to quarts, to pints, to cups, and vice-versa. Before I even think about introducing the math… Read the Rest»