Lesson Ideas for Using BrainPOP to Teach About Holidays

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BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. offer lots of seasonal movie topic pages. Here are some ideas for using Brainpop to teach about holidays:...

George Washington Carver Lesson Plan: Peanuts, Agriculture, and Inventions

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In this lesson plan, which is adaptable for grades K-5, students use BrainPOP resources to explore key events in the life of George Washington Carver. Students will also explain the meaning of agricul...

Making Words Lesson Plan: Say What? Game

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In these lesson ideas which are adaptable for grades 1-3, students use an online interactive game to review letter sounds and create words through various combinations of letters, onsets, and rimes....

Phonics and Decoding Lesson Ideas: The Next Electric Company Star

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In these lesson ideas, which are adaptable for grades 1-4, students use an online interactive game to practice decoding words and applying reading skills....

Hard and Soft Consonant Sounds Lesson Plan: Sort It Out Game

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In this lesson plan, which is adaptable for grades 1-3, students use an online interactive game to practice sorting words according to hard g and soft g sounds....

Onsets, Rimes, and Compound Word Lesson Ideas: Combotronic Game

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In these lesson ideas, which are adaptable for grades 1-4, students use an online interactive game to create words through various combinations of onsets, rimes, and compound word segments....

Making Words Lesson Ideas: Chain Game

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In these lesson ideas, which are adaptable for grades K-2, students play an online interactive game in which they change one letter within a word to create a new word....

Consonant Blends and Chunking Words Lesson Plan: Manny’s Word Mangler

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In this lesson plan, which is adaptable for grades 1-3, students use an online interactive game and their knowledge of consonant blends to practice chunking words and putting words together....

Silent E Lesson Plan: Word Transformer Game

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In this lesson plan, which is adaptable for grades 1-3, students use an online interactive game to practice making words with silent E, bossy R, and transformer H....

Sight Word and Sentence Structure Lesson Ideas: The Great Escape Game

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In this lesson plan, which is adaptable for grades 1-3, students use an online interactive game to practice sight word recognition, context clues, and sentence structure....