Getting Started with BeastBox

November 19, 2018
There are three ways to play BeastBox: Just play! Let students treat BeastBox as their own mixing board and create music from favorite ...

Adding with Mental Math Lesson Plan: Addition Blocks Game

May 29, 2013
In this lesson plan which is adaptable for grades 1-5, students use BrainPOP resources (including a free online interactive game) to practic...

Think Aloud Learning Strategy

October 21, 2013
In a Think Aloud, teachers model their thinking process out loud. Students see and hear the connections made, questions asked, and vocabular...

Teaching with Games, GLPC Case Study: Lisa

June 20, 2012
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center released new research from the Games and Learning Publishing Council initiative about teaching with games. They ...

Wildfires Lesson Plan: Earth’s Systems

July 29, 2022
*Click to open and customize your own copy of the Wildfires Lesson Plan. This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP topic Wildfires, and suppor...

Animals Around the World Unite! It’s World Animal Day!

October 3, 2011
World Animal Day has been celebrated every October 4th since 1931, when a group of ecologists started the event as a way to heighten public ...

Extinct and Endangered Animals Differentiated Lesson Plan

April 11, 2015
In this lesson plan which is adaptable for grades 3-5, students use BrainPOP resources to learn about extinct and endangered animals....

Reptiles Lesson Plan: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity

April 8, 2024
*Click to open and customize your own copy of the Reptiles Lesson Plan. This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP Jr. topic Reptiles, and supp...

July Spotlights

July 2, 2012
School’s out for summer, but that doesn’t mean students can’t squeeze in some summer learning with our spotlights. July spotlights, Red, ...