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We are thrilled to announce our Earth Awareness lesson plan contest winners! We hope you will check out these dynamic lesson plans and try them out with your students! A special thanks to all of our BrainPOP Educators, from Florida to Hawaii, who submitted a lesson plan highlighting BrainPOP and IMAX’s educator resources. For BrainPOP Jr. 1st place: “The Environmental Cost of Oil“ by Allyson Novy, 4th Grade Teacher, Lake Otis Elementary, AK 2nd place: “Earth Day Prezi” by Diane Aoki, Kealakehe Elementary School, HI For BrainPOP 1st place: “Tilting Temperatures“ by Jollyn Nolan, science teacher, Indiantown Middle School, FL 2nd place: “Top 5 Reasons for Earth Awareness“ by Beckie Share, Instructional Technology Specialist, Brookwood School, GA 3rd place: ”Environmental Problems and Solutions“ by Maggie, 6th Grade Teacher, Rugby Middle School, NC Congratulaions to our 1st place winners and their students, as they head out to an IMAX theater to enjoy Born to Be Wild 3D! Kudos to our 2nd and 3rd place winners, we hope you enjoy your complimentary BrainPOP subscription and package of safari promo goodies!  More prize details here! Earth Awareness month is winding down, so remember to check out our fabulous Spotlight full of resources to celebrate and teach about Earth Awareness. Interested in expanding your teaching skill set? We’ve got just what you are looking for, with Using Multimedia to Teach… Read the Rest»

Just a reminder – our Earth Awareness lesson plan contest supporting our partnership with IMAX and the release of their new film, Born to be Wild 3D is open for submissions! 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! We’ve got a fabulous Spotlight full of resources to celebrate and teach about Earth Awareness, as well as the recording of our webinar, Using Multimedia to Teach Earth Awareness, in our archives! We can’t wait to see your lesson plans! Submit them for the contest here. How are you teaching Earth Awareness this month? Please share ideas below!

Huge congratulations to the 12 winners of the First Annual National STEM Video Game Challenge, chosen from among more than 500 entrants! BrainPOP is proud to have served as a founding outreach partner of the competition, which invited middle schoolers to harness their STEM skills and design original video games. Part of the White House “Educate to Innovate” campaign, the contest was headed by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and E-Line Media. Find out more about the winners and their entries. This year’s contest may be over, but you can still use video games to teach STEM skills. Check out our Video Game topic and related lesson plan! You’ll find an array of helpful tips and additional resources.

Using a Multimedia Approach to Teach Earth Awareness Wednesday, March 30, 2011 *6:30 PM EST Duration: 1 Hour Bring learning to life by transporting your students into the wild… Immerse your students in some of the conservation efforts being made to rehabilitate and protect endangered species. We’ve partnered up with IMAX to bring you extraordinary online (and free!) resources and access to film talent from IMAX’s new educational film, Born to be Wild 3D (opening April 8). RSVP: http://imaxbp.eventbrite.com/

We’ve partnered with IMAX on a great initiative dedicated to raising awareness about conservation efforts and endangered species. The partnership means extraordinary online (and free!) resources for you from IMAX as well as two brand new BrainPOP movies: Primates and Elephants. Both debut as part of our Spotlight: Earth Awareness. On March 30th, just before the April 1 start of Earth Awareness Month, we’ll offer a special webinar entitled Using a Multimedia Approach to Teach Earth Awareness. In conjunction with this webinar and the partnership with IMAX, we invite you to submit a multimedia K-8 lesson plan related to earth awareness, conservation, or endangered species. Use BrainPOP and an array of other educator tools courtesy of IMAX: behind-the-scenes clips from the upcoming movie “Born to Be Wild 3D,” webisodes, downloadable educator activities, and more. You could win tickets for your class to see the film at an IMAX theater near you! Get more contest information here, and/or during the webinar. Hope you’ll join us! Get the details and RSVP for the webinar – space is limited.

Jayne Clare and Anne Rachel are two inspiring, experienced classroom teachers who’ve got their finger on the pulse of apps! We regularly refer to their website, teacherswithapps.com, a credible resource to help educators wade through the vast educational apps out there. We think what they are doing is amazing and are thrilled they’re sharing their expertise with us through a guest blog series! Check out their first BrainPOP Educators guest blog post, where they share how our BrainPOP Featured Movie App inspired them to delve into the world of educational apps. Every student, at some point, should become familiar with the legendary and dateless writings of Shakespeare. To introduce his work into your classroom, you can watch the William Shakespeare BrainPOP movie. I recommend pausing at the letter to Tim and Moby and asking your students to turn and talk or do a quick write to share what they already know about Shakespeare. You can then assign the associated Activity Pages or explore the FYI section as an added bonus. For a lesson plan idea, check out what BrainPOP Educators has to offer. Now, you might want to extend the learning just a bit further. This is where the app,… Read the Rest»

You know what sounds pretty good right now? Our Spotlight: Music, with topics from Blues, Jazz and Latin Music to Elvis Presley, Louis Armstrong, and Mozart. K-3 topics include Pitch, Tone, and Beat; Musical Alphabet; and Musical Instruments. Work these movies into one of three great lesson plan ideas from BrainPOP Educators.

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/

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.

From the Underground Railroad and Frederick Douglass to Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr. and everything in between, our Spotlight: Black History is the perfect resource for your timely February lessons.  Topics include Brown v. BOE, Civil Rights, Jackie Robinson, Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey and more.  K-3 topics explore Abraham Lincoln, George Washington Carver, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks, among others. Plus, turn to BrainPOP Educators for related lesson plans.