Posts on “ BrainPOP Jr. ”

Our K-3 resource has been named the winner of a 2013 ON for Learning Award from Common Sense Media! The ON for Learning Awards celebrate the best digital media products for kids. BrainPOP Jr. is one of just 50 apps, web sites, and games to be honored this year. Common Sense Media is dedicated to providing families with reliable information about media and technology; some of you may recognize the organization as one of our GameUp partners. Their ON for Learning Award winners are chosen based on the results of an intensive evaluation framework. Read what they had to say about BrainPOP Jr. We’re thrilled about this honor! Feel free to spread the good news by test driving our newly minted SHARE button, which you’ll see at the bottom of this post,      

Our thoughts are with all of you affected by Hurricane Sandy – may our return to normalcy be safe and quick. We know how many teachers and students are out of school and house-bound this stormy week, and we’d like to help make life at least a bit easier for you. All BrainPOP resources – including BrainPOP, BrainPOP Jr., BrainPOP Español, and BrainPOP ESL – will be completely FREE through the weekend. Help explain the catastrophic weather with topics like Hurricanes, Floods, Natural Disasters, and, on BrainPOP Jr., Fast Land Changes. Explore any other topic the kids might be interested in. Or take the titles on GameUp for a spin (our online games portal is always free). We’re here for you! As you may have read on Twitter, our headquarters in New York are without power as of October 30th, and our servers are down. We’re doing our best to assist and respond to our subscribers remotely, but we hope you’ll be patient with us over the next few days.  

Wednesday, September 12th at 3:30 PM ET- BrainPOP’s Newest Features! We’re thrilled to show you a breadth of new features and teaching tools designed to make your BrainPOP experience even better than before. This webinar spotlights all of them, including all the latest on BrainPOP Educators. You don’t want to miss it!

Wednesday, September 5th at 3:30 PM ET- Back to School with BrainPOP Kick off the school year with a BrainPOP refresher! We’ll discuss the basics, best practices, and creative teaching strategies so you can engage your entire class from day one. Perfect for both newbies and veteran users alike, this webinar hands you the tools you’ll need to get the most out of your subscription.

Bring learning to your fingertips with Annie and Moby!  We are excited to announce that we’ve recently released our BrainPOP Jr. Movie of the Week app.  You can now access BrainPOP Jr.’s movies and quizzes from an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, as well their accompanying Belly Up comics and Pop A Jokes.  The app itself is completely free to download from the iTunes App Store and we’re proud to say it’s currently the 2nd most popular free EDU app and is featured as “New & Noteworthy”. Current BrainPOP Jr. subscribers can log in from the Movie of the Week app and view all of BrainPOP Jr.’s content at no additional cost.  Non-subscribers can take advantage of our free content by accessing our featured movie of the week and it’s quiz, comic, and joke.  We’re just in time for summer, so whether it’s on vacation or in the car, be sure to take BrainPOP Jr. on the go!  

Wednesday, December 7th • 4:30 pm EDT • Duration: 1 hour Unsure of how to get started with your subscription?  We’re here to help! This webinar guides you through the full range of BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. features, showing you all kinds of ways to integrate them into your curriculum.  You’ll quickly see how our resources can help bring learning to life for your students!  

Back to School With BrainPOP Jr.: Brush Up on Basics … and Beyond! Wednesday, September 7 4:30 PM EST Duration: 1 Hour Kick off your school year the right way! Join this webinar and learn five things you didn’t know about engaging students with BrainPOP Jr. You’ll leave confident you’re getting the most out of our K-3 resource.

“POP” in with BrainPOP Jr. throughout the Summer Wednesday, June 8, 2011 4:30 PM EST Duration: 1 Hour Take advantage of the summer months to build and refresh young minds with BrainPOP Jr.! We will show you how to review the basics in short time periods, so your students start well prepared to tackle the challenges of the new school year. We’ve got tons on Math, Grammar, Social Skills, Science, and more to help engage your students. Register!

I can’t help but smile whenever I read the BrainPOP emails that kids send in. I thought I’d share a few of the most recent greatest hits from our youngest BrainPOP Jr. fans. I didn’t touch the spelling, grammar,or punctuation, but I did remove student names. Happy reading! how did you figure out the water cicle? Where can I find squirrels hibernateing in Winter? I want to see them asleeping so cutely. Do I have asthama? I like the one when Moby made a cumputer out of wood. Good-Bye Annie and Moby. What is Divishon can you make a video about asian beetles why do people get obese? I like otters.what are they why does moby make square  wheelS ON HIS Bike!!!HE’S funny!!! You are so alsome I like your shows and you no what you and Moby are funny and I dance to your music and my hole class room dances to your music. DID YOU KNOW INSPEIRE ME TO LEARN!IT HELPS ALOT TO LEARN FROM YOU THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU’VE DONE FOR EVERYONE y4strday i went on brain pop.jr and i watched a move about coins. That was so funny when moby fell! Please tell me about… 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. BrainPOP Jr.  has become an important part of my first grade classroom.  When I first started using it, about four years ago, I strictly showed the video clip and we took the quiz together with the use of our Promethean voting eggs (clickers).  Now…I find myself assessing my students with BrainPOP Jr. in an entirely different way.  We are constantly assessing in our district; whether it be DIBELS, spelling tests, weekly comprehension tests, math tests, and the list goes on and on.  This year, I have found myself assessing my students through BrainPOP in multiples subjects.  Here are some examples of activities I have done with my first graders.