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Toni Sexton is a Math Teacher in New York City. You can check out her fabulous lesson plan on Pi Day here! Gauging a student’s true comprehension of a concept can be difficult, especially in math! Students can go through the motions and memorize the steps without understanding why they are performing them. For this… Read the Rest»

It’s always thrilling to hear about a teacher inspired by another BrainPOP Educator! Thanks, Sarah, for sharing your experiences with us! My school is working on a podcast of educational videos based on BrainPOP.  We named them Cochrane Pop after our school.  This is our first attempt at making a BrainPOP video using a green… Read the Rest»

Special Educator Teacher, Shelley Doherty, from Dater School in Ramsey, NJ, shares some helpful tips she and her colleagues compiled. Thanks, Shelley! Our classified children are often distracted by the end of the lesson, so some of the teachers use BrainPOP to sum up the lesson. We find that they are more focused because they… Read the Rest»

Ashley Nottis is a 5th grade teacher at Williamstown Middle School, in Williamstown, NJ.  She is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Educational Media Design and Technology from Full Sail University.  Connect with her on twitter: @ashleynottis, and check out her lesson plan on Food Chains and Food Webs here! I have been using BrainPOP… Read the Rest»

BrainPOP Educators: Basics & Beyond Wednesday, December 8, 2010 4:30 PM EST Duration: 1 Hour Are you getting the most out of your BrainPOP subscriptions? If not, consider this webinar: learn the ins and outs of our professional community, now more than 100,000 members strong! Get the scoop on all the free tips, tools, and… Read the Rest»

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After lots and lots (and lots!) of revisions, we are ecstatic about BrainPOP Educators’ new look, feel, and functionality, all of which will make their official debut next week! In the meantime, we wanted to highlight a few of these changes and thank everyone who who participated in our user testing.  Your suggestions were invaluable,… Read the Rest»

I thought I’d try out a new series on the blog, sharing the best of the best tips, tricks, ideas, resources, etc. I’ll start with the most viewed content on our site this month. Did you know all of BrainPOP’s content (including BrainPOP Jr!) is aligned to state standards? Our State Standards Tool makes it… Read the Rest»

This totally made my day! I want to thank you for the webinar last Wedneday. It was filled with helpful and useful information. I couldn’t wait to share with our librarian, Margaret Frick. Today she used the quiz with few different grade levels. The tip of having the students show which answer they pick by… Read the Rest»

A few more tips… If you only have one computer for the class you can take a tour of the site together. After watching the tour you can use an interactive whiteboard and ask student volunteers to click on different features and explore them as a group. Make it fast and easy for kids to… Read the Rest»