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Flower Power: Math Game Essential Questions
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How are common and decimal fractions alike and different?
How are models best used to see how fractional parts can be combined or separated?
How can I use concrete materials and drawi...
Peer Pressure – BrainPOP’s Newest Topic
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Peer Pressure is a part of growing up, and BrainPOP wants to help students better understand its effects. As you get older, you’ll find yourself spending less time around your parents, and more time a...
Argument Wars Social Studies Game: Essential Questions
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What characterizes civilization and what enables it to flourish?
What is the purpose of government/the court system?
Is it ever okay to break the law?
Talk with students about these essentia...
Martin Esterman: Games, Math Fluency and Award Winning Ways
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Martin Esterman, the National STEM Video Game Challenge winner, joins us for a webinar on math fluency and the Common Core State Standards for Math practice. Martin tells us why he’s decided to use ga...
Author Studies with BrainPOP Lesson Plan: Choose Your Favorite Writer!
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In this author studies lesson plan, which is adaptable for any grade level, students use BrainPOP resources to explore the life and works of their favorite writer. Students will read two or more books...
Ratio Rumble Math Game: Tips and Tricks
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The Ratio Rumble math game contains many levels that get progressively more difficult, and it could take students around three hours to beat the game. Therefore, make sure students understand they are...
BrainPOP and the Flipped Classroom
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Make homework fun and involve parents: try a “flipped” lesson! We welcome Katie Neville, a true master educator with more than 40 years of classroom experience and a current Technology Resource Teach...
Refraction Math Game Essential Questions
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How can fractions be expressed, ordered, and compared?
How is adding and subtracting fractions different and similar from working with whole numbers?
How can models help us to predict t...
Quandary Assessment Ideas
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Quandary is a great springboard for discussion, so plan to leave a chunk of time for this at the end of the session. We've provided several assessment ideas in the form of sample questions and areas f...
Food Fight Game Play Strategy
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Track what happens when adding species in Food Fight: encourage your learners in exploring a game play strategy that increases and decreases populations. Adding species will sometimes help one player,...
