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Wednesday, May 16 3:00PM ET: Memorial Day is more than the summer kickoff – it’s an important topic to address in the classroom. BrainPOP and Knovation (formerly netTrekker) team up to help you identify the most engaging lessons and useful resources focusing on the holiday. We’ll demonstrate the pairing of BrainPOP’s high-quality content with Knovation’s extensive Social Studies collection and useful search and resource building features. Take home best practices for creating engaging and meaningful learning experiences for your students to remember this day and what it is all about.

Ahh,  the weeks before holiday break:  sentiments of joy and unrestrained excitement compete with the realities of extreme distraction and stress.  In other words, it’s hard to get a lot done!  At BrainPOP, we recognize this and we want to help you get through to the promised land: winter break. How about a little creative BrainPOP art project? Take a look at BrainPOP Educator’s exclusive BrainPOP holiday clip art collection. Load them into your IWB software and tell a winter tale, print ‘em out and have your students make a collage, use them for holiday sight words flashcards, make holiday cards! Using your imagination, there is no limit to what you and your students can do!  We’ve just activated a new feature to upload photographs, and we’re excited to see what you and your students come up with!  So get to work, snap a photo (or save the file with a .jpg or .gif extension),  and share with the community at BrainPOP Educators.  We can’t wait to see what you do!

October 7th is Ada Lovelace Day, a worldwide event named for 19th-century mathematician Ada Lovelace. Using the power of blogging, the day celebrates women who’ve followed career paths into the STEM areas: science, technology, engineering, and math.   As in years past, BrainPOP is proud to take part in the occasion, which serves in large part to inspire young girls to enter into STEM-related careers. Last year, we created a new topic on the “Enchantress of Numbers” herself, Ada Lovelace. If you haven’t done so already, we hope you’ll take some time to watch the movie, take the quiz, and read more about Lovelace with our FYIs. We also encourage your students to enjoy our other movies on some very accomplished women in science and technology, including Marie Curie, Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride and last week’s webinar subject Jane Goodall. Students might also take this opportunity to research a current woman in science or technology, and either write about her or make a presentation to a class or small group. If your students have their own blogs, or if your class runs a blog, you can even sign in on Findingada.com to have your post(s) be counted among the thousands around the world that will be published… Read the Rest»