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Check out our timely collection of topics, interactive resource, and lesson plans to use during the Month of May and beyond! Spotlight: Practical Math You can count on us! This month marks the debut of a brand-new Spotlight dedicated to Practical Math. Explore topics like Comparing Prices, Customary Units, Division, Estimating, Graphs, Interest, Metric Units, Percents, Scale Drawing, Rounding, and Statistics. For K-3, there’s Centimeters, Meters & Kilometers, Inches & Feet, Basic Subtraction, Basic Addition, and Dollars & Cents. Spotlight: Sports and Fitness With summer fast approaching, there’s no better time for our Spotlight: Sports and Fitness. Build awareness of healthy habits with topics like Baseball, Body Weight, Obesity, Fitness, Football, Jackie Robinson, and Olympics. On BrainPOP Jr., you’ll find resources tackling Exercise, Bones, and Lungs. Plus, be fashionable and fit – print out a “Get Pumped With Moby” t-shirt iron-on. How do you reinforce healthy habits with your students? Post ideas and resources below.

Aysha Ames is a fourth grade mathematics teacher in Montclair, New Jersey. BrainPOP has been an essential component of her classroom for the past two years and she is always finding new and creative ways to use iPod Touches, other mobile devices, and technology with her students. Check out how she uses the BrainPOP Featured Movie App in conjunction with her Morning Meeting. As a mathematics teacher of 75 students I find that it’s often hard to address current and historical events in a class period when there’s so much subject matter to teach. I was at a crossroads…I wanted to connect my students with the world around them, but I had difficulty finding the time!  Then I discovered…there’s the BrainPOP Featured Movie App for that! I think Morning Meeting is a great way to foster a spirit of community in my classroom. My homeroom students and I generally like to discuss the day’s historical significance and current events; however, there was a huge disparity in students’ background knowledge.   I would often find that certain students would dominate the discussion while others would remain silent. I would have no idea what my students previously knew about the topic, or what… Read the Rest»

Keep this list of BrainPOP movies handy, and check the BrainPOP Educators online Curriculum Calendar for additional tie-ins. ♦ May 1: The Empire State Building opened its doors on this date in 1931. Get the “stories” (all 102 of them!) on this NYC icon with our Skyscrapers movie. ♦ May 3: Just breathe … On World Asthma Day, show our BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. movies on Asthma, along with Peak Flow Meter (BrainPOP). ♦ May 5: Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with our Latin Music (BrainPOP) and Mexico (K-3) movies. ♦ May 7: On Astronomy Day, look to the stars with topics including Galaxies, Milky Way, Solar System (BrainPOP) and, for K-3, Sun and Moon. ♦ May 8: On the anniversary of VE Day, explain its significance with our World War II movie. ♦ May 11: Physicist Richard Feyman had a big impact on a very “small” field. On his birthday, show our Nanotechnology movie. ♦ May 15: What moves Mickey Mouse? On the anniversary of his 1928 debut, talk about Traditional Animation. ♦ May 17: Children’s author Eloise Greenfield celebrates a birthday today. ♦ May 19: Our Malcolm X movie profiles the influential civil rights leader on his birthday. ♦ May… Read the Rest»

We met Melissa Katz at the  Celebration of Teaching and Learning conference Tweet-Up, hosted by BrainPOP and Promethean.  She was eager to share with us how much she loved both BrainPOP and Promethean ActivExpressions.  Check out how she successfully integrates them into her learning environment. BrainPOP ROCKS in my classroom!  I use BrainPOP mostly to introduce or reinforce a lesson.  BrainPOP movies are the perfect length (3 to 5 minutes) packed with content and perfectly aligned to the NYS science standards! BrainPOP makes it easy for you to connect the content and resources with your state standards via the State Standards Tool. When I introduce a topic, I will play the movie first and give my students the corresponding BrainPOP vocabulary sheet.  Under each movie, you’ll find an Activity Page section, for you to print or have your students type on directly.  I then send them on a research mission related to a real world problem with the condition that the answer to the research must utilize all of the vocabulary words.  Sometimes students will create PowerPoint presentations and sometimes they will create their own, “BrainPOP movies”.  There is no greater flattery then imitation! At the end of class, I love to use… Read the Rest»

Keep this list of BrainPOP movies handy, and check the BrainPOP Educators online Curriculum Calendar for additional tie-ins. ♦ April 1: National Poetry Month kicks off today. Get versed in the subject with our Poetry and Similies and Metaphors movies. ♦ April 2: World Autism Day is observed today. Our Autism movie helps explain the neurological disorder. ♦ April 3: Jane Goodall celebrates a birthday today. Learn more about the primatologist and her work with our Jane Goodall movie. ♦ April 4: Our Maya Angelou movie profiles the writer on her birthday. Plus, mark the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. with our BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. movies about the civil rights leader. ♦ April 7: Don’t let World Health Day go unnoticed. Show our Human Body (BrainPOP) and Going to the Doctor (K-3) movies. ♦ April 9: The “War Between the States” officially ended on this date in 1865. Explain the conflict and its implications with our Civil War (BrainPOP) and Abraham Lincoln (K-3) movies. Also in April 9 history (1935), President Roosevelt formed the Works Progress Administration. Find out more in our New Deal movie. ♦ April 10: April 10 marks the establishment of the ASPCA in… Read the Rest»

Happy April! Not only do we have a fabulous Spotlight full of resources to celebrate and teach about Earth Awareness with, but we’re also super excited to announce a new lesson plan contest in honor of our partnership with IMAX and the release of their new film, Born to be Wild 3D! The educator who submits the best lesson plan highlighting how you use BrainPOP, along with IMAX’s educator resources, wins premium prizing – from tickets for their class to see the film and promo items, to a one-year subscription to BrainPOP (worth $1500)!Contest details here! And if you missed this week’s webinar, Using Multimedia to Teach Earth Awareness, fear not! It’s in our archives! We featured our partners over at IMAX, including Born to be Wild producer Drew Fellman, who provided insight on the making of the film from a documentarian’s standpoint, emphasized the importance of the film message when teaching conservation in the classroom, and made educators swoon with his knowledge of the beloved creatures that star in the film.  Educators were then shown to access all of the great digital educational resources available in conjunction with the film via the BTBW website and more. We can’t wait… Read the Rest»

The Latest on BrainPOP: ♦ Elapsed Time ♦ Fungi ♦ Hip-Hop and Rap ♦ Sally Ride The Latest on BrainPOP Jr.: ♦ Gravity ♦ Homonyms ♦ Colds and Flu How do you plan on introducing new BrainPOP content into your learning environment? Post a comment below.

What do an early computer programmer, an aviatrix, an artist, a civil rights icon, a scientist, an author, and a media mogul have in common? They’re all part of our Spotlight: Women’s History. This March Spotlight includes topics like Ada Lovelace, Amelia Earhart, Frida Kahlo, Judy Blume, Marie Curie, Oprah Winfrey, Sally Ride (new!), and much more, all on BrainPOP. For K-3, there’s Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, and Susan B. Anthony. The Spotlight also includes BrainPOP Educators lesson plans on Great Women in History, Susan B. Anthony, and Jane Goodall.

Making Connections with Apps Wednesday, March 9, 2011 4:30 PM EST Duration: 1 Hour Join educational app guru Jayne Clare, a classroom teacher who co-founded the app development company i-itch inc. and Teachers With Apps, a web site that tracks down the best ed apps out there. Jayne and her 6th-graders will show you how they use a range of cross-curricular apps that complement our Featured Movie app. You’ll leave the webinar inspired to jump on the app bandwagon yourself! RSVP: http://bpapps.eventbrite.com/

The Latest on BrainPOP: ♦ Middle Ages ♦ Vikings ♦ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ♦ Barack Obama (coming later this month!) ♦ George W. Bush (coming later this month!) The Latest on BrainPOP Jr.: ♦ Continents and Oceans ♦ Grams and Kilograms ♦ Forests ♦ Woodwind Instruments