Teaching Tips

Keep on Coding!

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Hour of Code may be over, but we hope you are inspired to keep on coding! Recognizing that your days are jam-packed, BrainPOP’s Creative Coding projects incorporate coding into your curriculum in ways...
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Taking a Spring Break from Test Prep

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Remember the days before state testing when spring was carefree? Maybe you’d bring your class outdoors for a lesson under the sun or allow a few extra minutes of recess. Spring meant summer was right ...
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How to Download Make-a-Movie

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Downloading movies made with Make-a-Movie is easy! Just follow these steps: Log in with your My BrainPOP account. Open the class timeline feed. Click a student’s movie project. Click the DOWN...
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Back-to-School Ideas for Make-a-Map and Make-a-Movie

Posted by cemignano on

The first few weeks of school are full of excitement - getting to know students, setting goals, building classroom culture, and establishing routines. It’s also an excellent time to explore the tools ...
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Keeping Students Engaged and Learning During the Summer

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The ideas in this post come from Certified BrainPOP Educator Alexa Corniel, grade 4 teacher at Skyline Elementary in San Diego, CA. Every year parents ask, “What can I do to keep my child learning ...
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NEW: Sensitive Content Notification

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As an educator, you know how valuable it is that BrainPOP offers content on just about every subject you’re looking to teach. We provide a wide and deep range of topics that address the needs of many ...
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Ten Resources for Making the Most of Make-a-Movie

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Make-a-Movie, the latest addition to our suite of creation tools, invites students and teachers using My BrainPOP to produce their very own BrainPOP-style movies. Need help getting started? No prob...
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Looking for Lesson Ideas? We’ve Got Your Back!

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Searching for lesson ideas? You've hit the jackpot! BrainPOP Educators offers Lesson Idea pages chock full of learning resources for every movie (BrainPOP, BrainPOP Jr., and BrainPOP ELL) and all of...
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Thoughts, Tips and Tricks from Certified Educators part 3 – BrainPOP Educators

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Over the last few weeks we have shared discussion highlights from our online Certified BrainPOP Educator course. We’re excited to continue the series with more thoughts and ideas from our future CBEs....
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Archiving My BrainPOP Classes

Posted by cemignano on

Summer is just around the corner and most schools are busy wrapping up the final days of school. Which means, it's time to take care of those end-of-year tasks! As we send one class on to the next gra...