Teacher Resources

Using Free BrainPOP Clip Art
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Did you know that BrainPOP offers free clip art? BrainPOP Educator Bobby Lewis of Feagin Mill Middle School in Warner Robins, Georgia, shares how he and his students make use of these resources. He wr...

New Media Consortium Loves GameUp!
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The New Media Consortium, authors of the esteemed and widely referenced Horizon Reports, provides an authoritative voice about all things education and technology. Therefore we were thrilled to see a ...
Earth Awareness Lesson Plan: What’s Your Cause?
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In this Earth Awareness lesson plan, which is adaptable for grades 3-8, students choose an area of environmental interest that is relevant to them and use BrainPOP resources to explore the topic in-de...

Ideas/Details
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This Ideas/Details graphic organizer is perfect for recording important ideas and supporting details from any book or text which is multiple pages long. This important Ideas and Details chart can be u...

Story Map Graphic Organizer
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This Story Map graphic organizer is handy for deconstructing stories that you've read in class, or helping organize a story you want to tell yourself. Learners map the story into its beginning, middle...

Teaching with Games, GLPC Case Study: Lisa
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The Joan Ganz Cooney Center released new research from the Games and Learning Publishing Council initiative about teaching with games. They conducted a series of case studies and a national survey, Te...

Teaching with Games – GLPC Case Study: Joel
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The Joan Ganz Cooney Center released new research from the Games and Learning Publishing Council initiative about teaching with games. They conducted a series of case studies and a national survey, Te...

Guts and Bolts Learning Game
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Visit the Lesson Ideas page to find resources for Guts and Bolts, a free online science and health game....

Brainstorming Web
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A Brainstorming Web graphic organizer is helpful for keeping brainstormed ideas organized, and pre-planning a project or writing assignment. In the middle, students write in the main idea or central c...
The Election Lesson Plan: Your Rights as a Citizen
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In this lesson plan, which is adaptable for grades 3-5, students use BrainPOP resources to explore their rights as citizens. Students will explain what a democracy is and its advantages and disadvanta...