What’s New on BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr.

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April showers bring May flowers AND a whole lot of new stuff on BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr.!

 

BrainPOP Movies

BrainPOP celebrated Earth Awareness with four new movies:

Wildfires
How can the destructive power of wildfires help rejuvenate forests? Watch this burning hot movie to find out!

Droughts
What happens when we start using more than the planet can provide? In this new movie, Tim and Moby dive into the causes and consequences of droughts.

Rachel Carson
Tim and Moby explore the life and work of this scientist, author, and activist whose book Silent Spring launched the modern environmentalist movement.

Climate Change Discover how climate change is leading to rising sea levels, water shortages, and extreme weather conditions, and what we can do about it.

BrainPOP Game

ZType
Put your typing skills to the test with this fun, fast-paced keyboarding game from our newest partner, Phoboslab.   ZType makes the skill and drill nature of keyboarding practice fun and engaging by challenging players to fend off the enemy’s attack by quickly typing words.

BrainPOP Jr.

Be sure to check out these three brand new language arts games from our partner, The Electric Company.

Jessica’s Joy Ride
Students power Jessica’s flying machine by collecting rhyming words. But they must be careful of false rhymes and other flying distractions!

Mine Cart Crash
In this word-building game, students sling the letters h, r, and silent e at the Prankster Bots to transform existing words into new ones.

Scrapyard Slice
The Prankster Bots are dumping compound words into the junkyard. Students stop them by slicing apart the compound words. But they must beware of words that are not compounds.

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