Teachley: Addimal Adventure White Paper

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It’s important for all children to master number facts, but memorizing answers is seldom the first step in the learning process. This is especially true for children who struggle with learning math. T...

Teachley: SnapThought Prompts

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Have your students signed up for individual accounts? If you have a school-wide subscription to BrainPOP, students will be able to use our SnapThought ® tool to play Teachley Add and Subtract Game! ...

Using a Rekenrek to Practice Addition Strategies

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A rekenrek is a set of 20 beads organized in two rows of ten. Read Teachley's blog to find out how your students can use this simple manipulative to practice addition strategies, such as counting on. ...

Two Effective Subtraction Strategies

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Read about the two subtraction strategies--counting back and counting on-- that are at the heart of the Subtractimals game in this Teachley Blog post. Then practice these effective strategies with you...

Single-Digit Addition and Subtraction Lesson Plan: Teachley Add and Subtract Game

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This lesson plan, adaptable for grades K-2 (intervention grades 3-5), centers around demo versions of Teachley Add and Subtract, interactive games featuring visual models of addition and subtraction s...

Classical Conditioning Lesson Plan: Pavlov’s Dog Game

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This lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-8, challenges students to use what they learn about classical conditioning to play a game in which they train a dog to drool on command. Students experiment un...

George Washington Carver Lesson Plan: Identifying Problem and Solution

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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-12, students explore BrainPOP resources to learn about the world-famous botanist George Washington Carver and how his ideas and inventions solved a range of...

Upcoming Site Maintenance

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A brief public service announcement: our sites - including BrainPOP Jr., BrainPOP, BrainPOP Español, and BrainPOP ELL - will be down for just a few hours of maintenance starting at 1 am ET this Saturd...

Quandary Lesson Plan for Differentiation and ELL Support

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This lesson plan suggests a variety of activities for differentiation and ELL support....

Wuzzit Trouble Game Collaborative Learning Tips

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To encourage collaborative learning, have students play Wuzzit Trouble (or Wuzzit Trouble Jr for K-3) collaboratively in teams or small groups. Ask students to help each other develop strategies for s...