Teacher Resources
Can Video Games Promote Intergenerational Play & Literacy Learning?
Posted by Laura Gatto on
Written by Cynthia Chiong, Ph.D. in December 2009, this report is from a Research & Design Workshop at The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. The report explores the power of video games ...
How Blogs, Social Media, and Video Games Improve Education
Posted by Laura Gatto on
Written by Darrel M. West, this article discusses how blogs, social media and video games can foster education. The author argues the use of these new technologies promotes new forms for participation...
Book Review for Video Games and Learning: Teaching and Participatory Culture in the Digital Age by Kurt Squire
Posted by Laura Gatto on
This is a book review, published on the Journal of Children and Media, written by Amy Shirong Lu (2012) on 'Video Games and Learning: Teaching and Participatory Culture in the Digital Age', a book...
Guts and Bolts™: SnapThought Prompts
Posted by SM Bruner on
Have your students signed up for My BrainPOP? If so, they’ll be able to take snapshots during Guts and Bolts game play! MyBrainPOP is available to BrainPOP Educators with 24/7 district- or school-wide...
Pause Points Graphic Organizer
Posted by SM Bruner on
One of the most popular strategies for using BrainPOP in the classroom is through using pause points, briefly pausing the movie to clarify student understanding. Turn this classic strategy into an art...
Commands Comic Strip
Posted by allisyn on
Create a comic strip or story by labeling the images and writing captions in this comic strip worksheet....
Sequence Graphic Organizer
Posted by allisyn on
Use this sequence graphic organizer, or flow chart, to record a sequence of events or the steps in a process....
Image Prompt: Verb Tense Practice
Posted by allisyn on
Practice using verb tenses to describe what's happening in the three action images....
What Happened First? Past Tense Sequence Activity
Posted by allisyn on
Use this past tense sequence worksheet for students to sequence past tense events using the past simple and past perfect appropriately. Put the story pictures in sequence. Then write captions using th...
