Teaching with Games – GLPC Case Study: Joel

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

Experimenting with Percussion Lesson Plan: Creating and Playing Percussion Instruments

June 7, 2012
In this lesson plan, which is adaptable for grades K-3, students use BrainPOP Jr. resources to identify and explore characteristics of percu...

Diagram Label Learning Objectives

June 12, 2016
Why is Labeling a Diagram an Important Skill?   Objective: Students apply their understanding of a concept by identifying parts of a diagra...

Bill of Rights Lesson Plan: Supreme Decision Game

May 30, 2012
In this lesson plan, which is adaptable for grades 3-12, students use BrainPOP resources to explore the powers of government set forth in th...

Games and Assessment With GameUp w/ CBE Amanda Pierman

August 18, 2017
Originally Recorded August 2017 Our learning game portal now includes more than 150 cross-curricular titles from leading game publishers....

Playful Assessment Explained!

November 23, 2016
BrainPOP's Director of Data and Assessment, Kevin Miklasz, explains the concept of "playful assessment", a guiding principle underlying the ...

New for My BrainPOP: Assignments

October 25, 2016
Originally Recorded October 2016 It’s here at long last! Teachers with My BrainPOP now have the ability to assign our movies and features...

Assessment Games with BrainPOP

October 14, 2016
Originally Recorded October 2016 BrainPOP offers a host of features to provide you with the assessment data you need, including a large c...

Nutrition Lesson Plan: Personal Health

December 23, 2021
*Click to open and customize your copy of the Nutrition Lesson Plan. This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP topic Nutrition, and supports t...

Games and Educational Research: A Match Made in Digital Heaven

August 14, 2014
Guest blogger Myra Luna-Lucero, M.A., Ed.M. shares the relationship between games and educational research, and  her experience using GameUp...