ELA

TSN-2 and My BrainPOP: SnapThought Prompts

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TSN-2 and My BrainPOP work together! Have your students signed up for My BrainPOP? If so, students will be able to take snapshots during TSN-2 game play with the SnapThought tool! MyBrainPOP is availa...
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...

How Kids Play Games: Teachable Moments in Refraction and Treefrog Treasure

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Guest blogger Eleanor O'Rourke of the University of Washington shares her reflections on a study of how children and adults play two of GameUp's games, Refraction and Treefrog Treasure. Adults and ...
Educational Games

Educational Games and Engaging Students With GameUp: Battleship Numberline

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In this educational games webinar, Director of BrainPOP Educators, Allisyn Levy, welcomes Dixie Ching of Numbaland for a discussion of the award-winning math game, Battleship Numberline. Visit GameUp ...
games for change

BrainPOP Partners Awarded Top Honors at Games For Change

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Congratulations to both Learning Games Network (LGN) and Filament Games, winners in this year's Game For Change Awards.  The Games for Change organization has a noble mission to "catalyze social impac...

GameUp and Becoming a BrainPOP Star!

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Guest Blogger Jenny Brandon is a Technology Teacher at Lauderdale Middle School, Ripley, TN.  She is also the Technology Liaison for the West Tennessee Writing Project, an Ed.S. Instructional Leadersh...
PowerPoint Game Sheet

Court Quest PowerPoint Game Sheet

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Check out this Court Quest PowerPoint Game Sheet!...

Addition Blocks Comes to GameUp

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Addition Blocks is the newest math game to be featured on GameUp!  Back in 2011, the Federal Department of Education’s Digital Promise Initiative announced the STEM Video Game Challenge, and Georgia b...

Guts and Bolts Essential Questions

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What are the main functions of the human body's organs? How can organ systems function interdependently? What does it mean to test a hypothesis? These are three essential questions we recomm...