Unit 1: My BrainPOP – The Student Experience

If you do not have a personal BrainPOP account, you need to set one up*!

Click to learn about My BrainPOP – and set up your Teacher account.

If you have a code, great! If not, the system will guide you through the process of getting one from an account administrator at your school.

Create a class and a test student account.  You will use this student account for the rest of unit 1 and unit 2!  BrainPOP’s system will guide you through this process.

*Some schools or districts may create My BrainPOP accounts for all teachers, or connect My BrainPOP login with a school’s single sign on (SSO) protocol.  If unsure, check with your IT department to find out.

If you’re brand new to BrainPOP, view this 1 minute overview that explains how the product and features work. If You’re familiar with BrainPOP – and want to get started using the features, you can skip to step #2.

Watch the following video to explain the features of a student My BrainPOP account.

Now log in as a student:

Explore through the topics in BrainPOP – notice the subject, unit, topic organization.

Then choose a topic from this list,  You will notice many features on the topic page, Begin by watching the movie.

This makes the BrainPOP movie unique?  Consider animation, narration, vocabulary, length, structure and  characters.

Click the quiz icon and take the quiz associated with the movie.

Choose “classic quiz” to submit results to a class. Choose “review quiz” to take the quiz and receive immediate feedback.

If you’ve joined a class and chosen “classic quiz”, you can submit the quiz to a class. After submission you can review your answers.  You cannot submit a “review quiz” to a class.

Make-a-Map is BrainPOP’s Concept Mapping tool. Students can connect clips from various BrainPOP Videos with related keywords and imagery to demonstrate learning and understanding in new ways. This overview video explains the features of the tool.

You can get started exploring Make-a-Map on your own by click the Make-a-Map icon on any topic page.

For more support using Make-a-Map you can find dozens of teacher testimonials, research findings and subject specific exemplars on our getting started with Make-a-Map support resource page.

To help students understand concept mapping visit the BrainPOP Concept Mapping topic page.

Click “activities” You will notice a number of tabs along the top of the screen.  You will always find a list of relevant vocabulary and many topic pages feature additional worksheets like graphic organizers or games.  Most recently, we have begun providing “primary source” materials and questions.

If you are logged in as a student you will be able to save and submit each page of activities to a class.

The Related Reading is a collection of (up to 6) short non-fiction informational text passages that delve more deeply into each topic.  There are many creative ways that you can use the Related Reading with students.  Check out this blog entry to read about them!

Related Readings are read only and cannot be submitted to a class.

Every BrainPOP topic page has a teal colored “Lesson Ideas” button.

Clicking “Lesson Ideas” brings you to a collection of topic specific support resources that include: lesson plans, teaching tips, video tutorials, graphic organizers and more to suggest ways to use BrainPOP with students. Each Lesson Ideas collection is specific to the topic page on BrainPOP. In addition to the topic specific resources on the Lesson Ideas page,  there are thousands of additional support materials for teachers and students on BrainPOP Educators.

There are lesson ideas pages for each topic on BrainPOP Jr., and each game on GameUp.   BrainPOP ELL lesson Ideas pages are in development.

For more information about BrainPOP Educators, you can view this video:

If you are logged in as a student, take a summative assessment to test what you remember from this unit!  Simply copy and paste this quiz code into the “enter code” field at the top of the BrainPOP page.  You can submit the quiz score to your class.

Quiz Code: bpunit1test