January Curriculum Connections
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Happy New Year!
Keep this list of BrainPOP movies handy this month as you plan how to integrate BrainPOP into your curriculum:
♦ January 9: The 37th president of the United States was born on this day in 1913; show our Richard Nixon movie and learn all about his legacy. Also, show our United Nations movie on the anniversary of the organization’s 1951 headquarters opening.
♦ January 10: Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” was published on this date in 1776; put that in context with our Declaration of Independence and American Revolution movies.
♦ January 11: Don your aviator sunglasses and show our Amelia Earhart movie; the famed pilot flew solo from Hawaii to California on this date in 1935.
♦ January 12: Help make sense of the devastation that struck Haiti one year ago today: show our Earthquakes and Natural Disasters movies.
♦ January 15: Wikipedia celebrates its 10th anniversary today; get the information you need with our Online Sources movie.
♦ January 17: He’s so much more than just a pretty face on a $100 bill: watch our Benjamin Franklin movie on this U.S. founding father’s birthday. Plus, show our Martin Luther King, Jr. movie on the day we observe his birthday.
♦ January 20: On astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s birthday, our Apollo Project movie is out of this world.
♦ January 23: It’s a stroke of genius to show our Painting, Impressionism, and Portraits movies on artist Edouard Manet’s birthday.
♦ January 24: Voyager II made its closest approach to our solar system’s seventh planet on this date in 1986. Find out more about the blue-green planet in our Uranus movie.
♦ January 27: It’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. Explain the horrors of one of history’s darkest periods with our Holocaust movie.
♦ January 28: Take a moment to remember the Challenger disaster on its 25th anniversary; our Space Flight movie is a useful resource.
♦ January 29: Happy birthday to one of the world’s biggest TV personalities and philanthropists! In case you weren’t sure who that is …light the candles and show our movie on Oprah Winfrey.
♦ January 30: On his birthday, snap out of that depression with our Franklin D. Roosevelt movie.
