Lesson Ideas
Five-Paragraph Essay
Five-Paragraph Essay
Main Idea of a Text Lesson Plan: The TSN2 Game
In this free online reading and writing lesson plan designed for grade 8 and adaptable for grade 9, students use BrainPOP resources to practice finding and inferring the main idea of a text selection. Students will then use a free online game to apply their reading skills to a real world context.Read more »
Research Lesson Plan: Choosing a Topic, Researching, and Writing
In this lesson plan, which is adaptable for grades 3-12, students view, analyze, and discuss various BrainPOP videos in order to get an overview of possible research topics. Students then complete the research process in order to synthesize a research paper.Read more »
Idioms and Clichés Lesson Plan: How to Identify, Use, or Avoid Them
In this multi-day lesson plan, which is adaptable for grades 6-12, students use BrainPOP resources to explore idioms and cliches. Students will identify idioms and cliches in books and use them in original writing.Read more »


