Skeletal System Lesson Plan: Build-a-Body Interactive

December 5, 2016
In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-8, students use the drag-and-drop game Build-a-Body: Skeletal System to assemble a skeletal syst...

Guts and Bolts Essential Questions

June 10, 2013
What are the main functions of the human body's organs? How can organ systems function interdependently? What does it mean to test a ...

Guest Blog: CyberSafety

November 21, 2010
I’ve been teaching elementary technology classes at Chenoweth Elementary for five years and for the first four I thought that topics like ...

December Curricular Tie-Ins

December 3, 2010
Keep this list of BrainPOP movies handy, and check our online Curriculum Calendar for additional tie-ins. ♦ December 1: Each year on...

Meaningful Fun: Why Video Games Should be Used in the Classroom (Part 2 of 3)

June 13, 2011
Along with developing in gamers new methods of low-level but useful information processing, games can do an excellent job of teaching conten...

Meaningful Fun: Why Video Games Should be Used in the Classroom (Part 3 of 3)

June 13, 2011
Educationally, traditional video games have much to offer at multiple levels: in the sub-conscious realm of information processing, at the c...

Goodbye Steve Jobs

October 6, 2011
Yesterday's announcement of Steve Jobs' death was a significant event in the history of computing and innovation.  Jobs has been a major pla...

Game Night at BrainPOP

March 29, 2012
Game nights have been bringing people together for generations, and recently BrainPOP collaborated with our frie...

Guts and Bolts

July 5, 2012
Guts and Bolts? It may sound gross, but it sure is fun! Our newest BrainPOP developed game on GameUp leads students as they help Moby constr...

Summer Connection and Building a Culture of Innovation.

August 1, 2012
BrainPOP was thrilled to sponsor and attend Summer Connection 2012, a conference in Mooresville, North Carolina - home of the "Digital Conve...