Guest Blogger: Jaclyn McLaren’s Year End Review
May 15, 2012
Jaclyn McLaren is a 6th grade Earth Science teacher at Webb Bridge Middle School in Alpharetta, GA. I have been teaching 6th Grade Earth Science for six years and we have been able to use BrainPOP, thanks to a PTA grant, for the past five years at my school. The teachers at my school use the resources on a daily basis. BrainPOP brings an innovative educational experience to our classrooms where the students look forward to learning in this creative way. They enthusiastically focus on the fresh new ideas offered during these movies and continue on to the final questions with much anticipation. This year though I wanted to do something different as a test review. I was thinking how I could incorporate BrainPOP into my classroom. Then it came to me, I would have students create their own videos on topics taught in class. The students would get in groups and I would assign them each a different topic discussed over the school year. I decided to incorporate this idea for use as a year end review. The students overwhelmingly agreed how exciting it would be to create their own videos on topics taught in the class. They formed… Read the Rest»
