Medal of Freedom 2013 winners: Sally Ride, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Clinton, Loretta Lynn

Curriculum Connections for the 2013 Presidential Medals of Freedom

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Every year, the President of the United States confers Presidential Medals of Freedom on a number of highly accomplished Americans who have had profound effects on society. Yesterday, President Obama ...
TSN-2 and My BrainPOP: Teacher's Guide

Online English Game: The Sports Network 2 Teacher’s Guide

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Download this handy PDF from our partner, Classroom Inc., to help students organize their thinking while playing the online English game The Sports Network 2. You can find more ideas for supporting st...

Teaching with Games

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Teaching with games "allows me to hit multiple learning styles in the same lesson in a much easier way than the normal classroom environment." ~David McG, from Best Practices for Using Games & Sim...
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BrainPOP and Your Potential Energy!

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Guest blogger Christine Abdou reflects on teaching difficult content while addressing all learning styles with the use of BrainPOP.  As an elementary school science teacher, I often find myself hav...

Inventions Lesson Plan: The Origins of Computers and Other Technology

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In this lesson plan which is adaptable for grades 6-8, students use BrainPOP resources to explore the origins of computers and how they have changed our lives and affected other inventions....
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Webinar Withdrawal?

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This July, you may have noticed that we're taking a break from the weekly webinar series on BrainPOP Educators. Even though we're not broadcasting live, there is plenty of great content in our archive...
Volcanoes Student-Made Video

Volcanoes

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Learn about Volcanoes in this student-made, BrainPOP-inspired video with features created by Liz Gatewood & Sandi Johnson's 3rd graders from Kentucky Country Day School, KY....
Student Made Video

Lewis and Clark: A Student-Made Video

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Learn about Lewis and Clark in this BrainPOP-inspired student-made video by Robert Miller's 4th & 5th graders from Port Orange, Florida....

Academic Standards

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Search for common core and individual state academic standards and alignments within BrainPOP, BrainPOP jr. BrainPOP ELL, BrainPOP Espanol and GameUp!  ...

Inquiry Based Exploration with TechChef Lisa Johnson

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TechChef Lisa Johnson shared about inquiry based learning and documenting student work in the BrainPOP booth at ISTE 2013. Check out her "Thinklink" and do some "inquiry based" exploration yourself! ...