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What’s New?

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What's new on BrainPOP? Whether we're adding new topics to BrainPOP, sharing our favorite educational games on GameUp or a building new levels on BrainPOP ELL, we're hard at work curating and creating...

Games Based Learning, Call for Proposals

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With the ever expanding list of game offerings on BrainPOP's GameUp, we like to share about games based learning opportunities that we think you will find useful. Every summer the Games Learning and S...

Webinar Alert: Differentiating with Digital Games

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You’ve heard all the buzz about digital games in the classroom – but does game-based learning work with differentiated instruction? Can games really meet the needs of all your students? Allisyn Levy a...
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Exploring Minecraft in Education

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It's a rare teacher who encourages students to visit another world when they should be focused at school. But that's exactly how Joel Levin, a computer teacher at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory Scho...

BrainPOP’s Own Hero: Kari Stubbs

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Let’s hear it for our very own Kari Stubbs, who was recognized as one of Daily Edventures’ global heroes in education!  Daily Edventures is an education-focused blog that has a central goal for 20...

STEM Video Game Challenge

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As a proud sponsor of the STEM video game challenge, BrainPOP will be participating in PBS kids' twitter party this Thursday night. RSVP to join the party and chat about the learning theories behind g...
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Teacher, Game Designer and BrainPOP Educator, Adam Coccari

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This Wednesday at 6:30 PM ET, we welcome back to our webinar series BrainPOP educator extrodinaire Adam Coccari.  Not only is Adam working with his students to prepare games for the National STEM chal...

Webinar Alert: Inspiring Through Game Design with Globaloria

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Join us for Wednesday's webinar at 4:30PM ET. At BrainPOP we’re committed to providing high quality games not only through GameUp but by supporting game design projects in multiple education settin...

12 Resolutions for 2012

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In 2012, we pledge to help each and every BrainPOP educator. Here is a list of 12 promises that we make to you. We will help you by. . . 12)  providing lesson plans with ideas for using Brain...

Learning a Cell Cycle by Playing a GAME?

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Can YOU learn how a cell cycle works by playing a GAME?   That’s the challenge Sarah Jean-Daum gave her students – 7th-graders at NYC’s Cathedral School – earlier this month. The game in qu...