We've curated a month's worth of timely movies for June, whether you have a few more lessons to fill, a summer school session to run, or just a classroom full of curious kids who still want to know how things work.

Every BrainPOP movie starts with student curiosity—in the form of a letter, from a student, asking a burning question. But did you know that selecting which letters BrainPOP answers starts with a question, too?

BrainPOP movies start with a letter, from a student, to Tim and Moby—or Cassie and Moby, or Rita and Moby, or whoever is with Moby that day. They ask big, complex questions, like “How come I can’t ever get to the end of the rainbow?” or “Why do germs make me sick?” or “What are taxes? Why do we have them?”, and are signed by a kid or class. Ever wonder why every BrainPOP movie starts with a letter?

From Star Wars Day and AAPI Heritage Month to World Bee Day and the anniversary of the New York Public Library, we’ve curated weekly movie recommendations to accompany your May lesson planning.

Meet the first four releases in BrainPOP’s newest movie collection: Folktales, Adventure Stories, Realistic Fiction, and Historical Fiction. Arriving just in time for National Reading Month and International Children’s Book Day, these movies are essential tools all year round. Whether you use them as a genre-study bell-ringer, a book hook, a writing warmup, or a social studies intro, your students will walk away making deep, lasting connections to the text.

Discover three suggestions for incorporating history-making women into your classroom during Women's History Month — and beyond!

Resources to support educators as they bring Black history in their classroom during Black History Month–and all year long.

In 2025, we added 21 new movies across BrainPOP 3-8 and BrainPOP Jr. Moby, Tim, Annie, and friends solved mysteries in the woods using celestial mechanics, turned indoor cycling into decimal bootcamp, and proved that even corpse flowers make perfect sense once you understand adaptation. Read on below for what’s new, what’s updated, and what's coming next.

Discover how BrainPOP’s Connected Texts build reading comprehension and content knowledge across subjects. Each short nonfiction passage includes built-in supports, real-time insights, and multiple reading levels—helping every student grow as a confident, independent reader.

BrainPOP joins Code.org’s Hour of AI to help classrooms worldwide take their first steps into learning, creating, and thinking critically about AI.

Learn how one teacher uses BrainPOP Jr. and KWL charts to build whole-class background knowledge and spark hands-on learning about the Sun.

Boost literacy with BrainPOP’s vocabulary builder tool. Interactive activities and real-time data help grades 3-8 master Tier 2 words with confidence.

Whether through writing, discussion, or drawing, these easy-to-use BrainPOP Jr. activities support different learning styles and help every student connect with the content and build lasting skills.

Pause Points are now available in BrainPOP Jr. movies, allowing students to build background knowledge, practice vocabulary, and deepen comprehension as they go.

By incorporating project-based learning through BrainPOP's Make-a-Movie, teachers can create flexible experiences that engage every learner.

What if you could turn your classroom into a movie studio, while still keeping everyone focused on the day’s lesson?

By including engineering design challenges in lessons, we can provide students with hands-on experiences that make science more relatable.

Help students make the connection between the elements on the periodic table and the world around them with these BrainPOP Science lessons.

Not sure how to code yourself…let alone teach coding? Don’t worry—each project is directly related to a topic that you’re already teaching!

Explore our BrainPOP Science resource hub and bring your science lessons to life!