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 »

In this multi-day lesson plan, which is adaptable for grades 6-12, students use BrainPOP resources to explore the Spanish surrealist movement. Students will view examples of paintings by Salvador Dali and Joan Miro, as well as short films by Luis Bunuel. They will learn the process for writing a point of view paper based on one of the characters in the art they have viewed by writing an essay. Students then participate in an oral presentation by sharing their characters in a “guess who” game/presentation with their classmates. Read more »

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 »