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Join the POParrazi We are excited to be in Austin, Texas, this week for the 2013 TCEA Conference.  If you’re at the conference, stop by Booth # 1717 to take your picture with Moby and participate in our #mobyandme POParrazi photo collection!  While you’re there, find out about the latest developments at BrainPOP, including the mixer, new Educators pages ,and a special first glimpse of new teacher and student accounts!   BrainPOP is also featured in the conference program – our own Arturo Guajardo will present BrainPOP Basics and Beyond Thursday, FEB. 7th from 12:30 – 1:20pm in the Hilton ROOM 406. See you there!  

Wednesday, September 21 6:30 PM EST Duration 1 hour Go mobile with BrainPOP! Special guest host Tammie Mihet, a Florida teacher, shows you creative ways to use work our Featured Movie app into your day. Whether you use the app in Chrome, on an HP TouchPad, or on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, you’ll pick up great integration ideas, lesson plans, resources, and more.

Late summer often coincides with wacky weather and other natural disasters, which is why we’re featuring our Natural Disasters Spotlight through the end of August. Worried about Hurricane Irene, currently threatening the Atlantic Coast? Show your students the BrainPOP movie on Hurricanes and the BrainPOP Jr. movie on Fast Land Changes to help them understand the havoc these storms can wreak. We’ve even got a Hurricanes flip chart and a Natural Disasters lesson plan ready for you to download. Though unrelated to the season, our Natural Disasters Spotlight also features our Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics topics, which can help explain to youngsters the recent rumbles in Colorado and Virginia. In addition, the spotlight includes topics on Tsunamis, Floods, Tornadoes, and Thunderstorms. We hope you find these resources useful!

Are you searching for fun, creative ways to use BrainPOP with your students during these final weeks of school?  Have you already started the planning process for next year?  We hopefully have just what you’re looking for; check out our new lesson plans listed below.  The lessons and activities are adaptable for a wide variety of grade levels and always feature our BrainPOP movies and interactive resources! Cause and Effect: Natural Disasters *Bonus: can be used with today’s Featured Movie, Floods Stress Management Cartoons Student-Created Review Activities on the Parts of Speech Plagiarism, Copyright, and Citing Sources Documenting Learning with Digital Photography Using the Scientific Method in Real-World Problems Solar System Mobiles Metric or Customary? Rounding or Exact Answer? Geometry Q&A That’s not all, we have five award-winning lesson plans on Earth Awareness submitted by members of the BrainPOP Educators community! To view our lesson plans, you’ll need to create a free BrainPOP Educators account. The process takes only a few seconds, and will provide you with access to over 130 lessons, plus free webinars, printable graphic organizers, professional development, and more! We invite you to submit your own lesson plans to share how YOU use BrainPOP, BrainPOP Jr., and… Read the Rest»

If the kids in your life have seen the news in the past few days, they’ve seen the devastating weather that’s plaguing parts of the U.S.  It’s scary stuff.  To help explain what’s happening, we’re offering free access to our Tornadoes topic. For more relevant topics, explore our Spotlight: Natural Disasters. Need some tips on working the topic into your lessons? Use the Tornadoes quiz, Q&A, or KWL chart for an idea of what students already know and what they want to learn. As new questions crop up, return to the topic and add to the KWL chart. Use our printable and typeable Activity Pages to reinforce concepts. The In Practice feature of the Tornadoes FYI is another way to review: have the class come up with tornado safety tips or come up with their own safety plan. Amid the recovery efforts, our thoughts go out to everyone affected by this devastation and to those helping to provide relief. How are you addressing the tornadoes with your students? Please share your tips, thoughts, or ideas.

Moby, Moby, What Do You See? Scavenger Hunts With BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. Wednesday, April 27, 2011 4:30 PM EST Duration: 1 Hour Learn how to create real or virtual scavenger hunts that weave in BrainPOP’s resources to enrich whatever topic you’re teaching. From body parts to parts of a plant, we’ll help you get your young explorers excited to investigate the world around them. RSVP: http://bpscavengerhunts.eventbrite.com/

We love to hear stories of BrainPOP spanning the globe; we traveled, via the internet, all way to Japan to take a peek into Makky Fung’s classroom. After exploring BrainPOP Educators for ideas, Makky decided to challenge her students to make a BrainPOP-inspired movie about solar energy! BrainPOP has been a great resource for students in K-6 to learn about various topics through fun short animations.  Our students use it all the time for research, learning, or simply just to watch the fun animation. A group of 3rd grade students were given a challenge to demonstrate their understanding of renewable and non-renewable energy by making their very own BrainPOP-inspired video. During pre-production time, students learned to ask questions, research on the internet, find and analyze information, write a storyboard with script, download royalty free pictures, and use Keynote to make a multimedia presentation. Take a look at their story boards with scripts here. Production time was focused on building animation in a Keynote slide show and recording their scripts in Garageband.  Students worked collaboratively in groups of four. They were very good at dividing their tasks and listening to each other’s opinions and ideas.  Most importantly, my students had fun… Read the Rest»

Next week we will announce the winners of our recent Share YOUR Vision for Mobile Learning Contest in conjunction with the Mobile Learning Experience Conference.  Stay tuned to BrainPOP Educators as we’ll unveil one winner each day starting Monday. We encourage you to stay connected with conference presentations, highlights, and discussions via the Mobile Learning Experience 2011 Blog and on twitter, simply follow @mobile2011 and @brainpop. Interested in playing in a special mobile learning “sandbox” while attending the conference?  During lunchtime on Thursday, the 7th and Friday the 8th, attendees are urged to head over to the BrainPOP “sandbox” to check out up-and-coming devices pre-loaded with apps recommended by fellow BrainPOP Educators. Our own, Dr. Kari Stubbs, Vice President of 21st Century Learning at BrainPOP will also be presenting Digital Content Meets Mobile Devices at the conference. Checkout her session and the entire line up. Are you attending the Mobile Learning Experience Conference? Remember to stop by the app sandbox to explore the positive impact of mobile devices in education with Kari!

The Ins & Outs of BrainPOP Educators Wednesday, March 23, 2011 4:30 PM EST Duration: 1 Hour Are you getting the most out of your BrainPOP subscriptions? If not, consider joining this webinar hosted by Jessica Storer, our very own BrainPOP Educator newbie! Jessica will delve deep into the ins and outs of our professional community, now more than 100,000 member strong. She’ll share the inside scoop on all the free tips, tools, and resources we offer teachers, from lesson plans and graphic organizers to video tutorials, answer keys, and much more. RSVP: http://educatorinsandouts.eventbrite.com/

Happy holidays! As we enter a new year, we want to take a moment to say thanks to all of you for making BrainPOP Educators the incredible community that it is. Without your generous contributions of tips, lesson plans, blog posts, and more, we couldn’t boast that we’ve got over 110,000 BrainPOP Educators with over 850 free resources. So thank you. Truly. A new year is a great opportunity to take some time for reflection. We would love to hear which resources you value the most on BrainPOP Educators, so we can continue to develop helpful content that will be meaningful to you. Please share your top favorites by commenting below.