The Election Lesson Plan: Your Rights as a Citizen

June 14, 2012
In this lesson plan, which is adaptable for grades 3-5, students use BrainPOP resources to explore their rights as citizens. Students will e...

Election-Themed Games from iCivics: On The Ballot

March 28, 2013
These election-themed games have just what you need to teach your students about the path to becoming president. Our friends at iCivics join...

Web Graphic Organizer

May 31, 2012
This graphic organizer is useful for pre-planning a project, finding relationships among concepts, and generating ideas. It’s perfect for re...

Teacher Movie: Why Code on BrainPOP?

May 21, 2022
Nat and Moby explain the reasons to code projects on BrainPOP....

Active Viewing Strategies

April 20, 2020
Active viewing strategies make movie watching a participatory and interactive lesson.  In this tutorial, veteran teacher Robert Miller demon...

Vocabulary Development Lesson Plan: Using a Word Map

August 26, 2018
Students explore and make connections between terms and concepts associated with a BrainPOP topic.  ...

Democracy Lesson Plan: Civic and Political Institutions

November 9, 2021
*Click to open and customize your own copy of the Democracy Lesson Plan.  This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP topic Democracy, and suppo...

U.S. Constitution Lesson Plan: Government

September 24, 2021
*Click to open and customize your own copy of the U.S. Constitution Lesson Plan. This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP topic U.S. Constitu...

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...