February Spotlight: U. S. Presidents

February 7, 2011
George Washington. John Adams. Abraham Lincoln. John F. Kennedy. Richard Nixon. How much do your students really know about our founding...

Lesson Ideas for Using BrainPOP to Teach About Holidays

December 5, 2012
BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. offer lots of seasonal movie topic pages. Here are some ideas for using Brainpop to teach about holidays:...

Character Map

May 31, 2012
This character map graphic organizer is useful for analyzing the main character in a story. Students will identify the character’s traits an...

Ideas for Using BrainPOP Jr. to Teach Social Studies

October 10, 2013
BrainPOP Jr. can help you teach and reinforce geography, history, government, economics, citizenship, communities, and other social studies ...

Using BrainPOP Jr. to teach about U.S. symbols

April 10, 2015
This screencast shares a variety of ways teachers can use the free BrainPOP Jr. movie U.S. Symbols to help K-3 students understand the histo...

Spotlights: Black History and U.S. Presidents

February 13, 2015
This month, our Spotlights explore Black History and U.S. Presidents! Check out our movie topic pages on Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Bro...

U.S. Symbols Background Information for Teachers and Parents

May 24, 2013
This page contains information to support educators and families in teaching K-3 students about symbols of the United States. The informatio...

Spotlight: Black History Month

February 10, 2011
From the Underground Railroad and Frederick Douglass to Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr. and everything in between, our Spotlight: Bla...

Using BrainPOP to teach about Reconstruction

May 21, 2015
In BrainPOP's new movie, Reconstruction, students can follow Tim and Moby as they learn about the attempt to rebuild the South and reunite t...