Cause and Effect Chain

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This graphic organizer requires students to identify a chain of cause and effect events. This cause and effect chain can be used to explore causality in several curriculum areas, including literature,...

Pause Points Graphic Organizer

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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...

Story Impression Learning Strategy

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In the Story Impression strategy, pairs of students write a one-paragraph story together, using new vocabulary words. The teacher designates which words or phrases to use, and lists them in the order ...
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Ideas for Using BrainPOP Jr. to Teach Social Studies

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BrainPOP Jr. can help you teach and reinforce geography, history, government, economics, citizenship, communities, and other social studies concepts! Here are some ideas to get you started: Use a s...

Ideas for Using BrainPOP Jr. to Teach Math

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BrainPOP Jr. can help you teach and reinforce hundreds of key skills in math: number sense, operations, geometry, measurement, data, graphing, and more!  Here are some ideas to get you started: Use...

Using BrainPOP Jr. to Teach Technology Skills

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BrainPOP Jr. can help you teach and reinforce all sorts of key skills in technology: internet safety, parts of a computer, responsible use of computers, blogs, email, and more! Here are some ideas to ...

Ideas for Using BrainPOP Jr. to Teach Health

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BrainPOP Jr. can help you teach and reinforce lots of key health concepts, including general wellness, safety, interpersonal relationships, bodies and body systems, teeth and oral hygiene, healthy eat...

1.1.3 Be (Questions) Lesson Plan

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In the BrainPOP ELL movie, What Is It? (L1U1L3), Moby comes to visit Ben, bringing him a surprise. As Ben tries to guess what’s in the box, students are introduced to the interrogative form of the ver...

Ideas for Using BrainPOP Jr. to Teach Literacy

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Whether you call it reading and writing, English Language Arts (ELA), or literacy, BrainPOP Jr. can help you teach and reinforce hundreds of key skills in reading comprehension, language, phonics, and...

1.1.2 The Verb to Be (Negative) Lesson Plan

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In the BrainPOP ELL movie Magic Show (L1U1L2), Moby and Ben introduce the negative forms of the verb to be in the present tense. The lesson plan, adaptable for grades K-8, engages students through han...